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AMOS RICHARDSON 



OF 



Boston and Stonington, 

with a contribution to the 
history of his descendants and 
the allied families of gilbert, 
edwards, yarrington, and rust. 



Every man is a bundle of his ancestors— Emerson. 



BY 

^OSELL L, 'J^ICHARDSON, 



Second Edition. 



Published by the Author. 
NEW YORK, 1906. 






L. Middleditch Co., Printers, 65 to 67 Duane St. 
New York. 



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CONTE1V7TS. 



The Name — Richardson 6 

First Generation— Amos Richardson 7-35 

Second Generation — Stephen Richardson and descendants, ex- 
cept in the line of his son Jonathan 26-31 

Third Generation — Jonathan Richardson and descendants, ex- 
cept in the line of his son Amos 32-39 

Fourth Generation — Amos Richardson and descendants, except 

in tlie line of his son Lemuel 40-65 

Fifth Generation — Lemuel Richardson and descendants, except 

in the line of his son Humphrey 66-92 

Sixth Generation— Humphrey Richardson and descendants, ex- 
cept in the line of his son Humphrey 93-95 

Seventh Generation — Humphrey Richardson and descendants, 

except in the line of his son Milo A 96-109 

Eighth Generation— Milo A. Richardson and his descendants. . . 110-116 

Appendix A— The Jonathan Gilbert Family 117-120 

Appendix B— The Edwards Family of Hartford 121-125 

Appendix C — The Yarrington Family of New England 126-128 

Appendix D— The Rust Family of New England 129-131 

Index 132 



PREFACE. 



¥ AM fond of historical research and have found in it a rest- 
" fill means of recreation since I first came to New York 
City, as a student, in 1871. In tracing out my ancestry 
and that of many of my friends I have had no intention until 
recently of publishing any of it My reasons for doing so are 
twofold : first, I have collected so much data during the thirty- 
four years since I commenced that it will gratify me to have it 
placed within tlie reach of others ; second, there is no satisfactory 
account of Amos Richardson and his descendants. '"The Rich- 
ardson Memorial," written by the Rev. John Adams Vinton, is 
an excellent genealogy and was a great aid to me, but the dozen 
pages in it giving the "Posterity of Amos Richardson" were 
hastily prepared after the Memorial was partly printed and 
contain many errors and important omissions. 

I have gleaned information from so many sources that I 
cannot mention all who have kindly assisted me. I am indebted 
to Mrs. Henry F. (Susan Whitney) Dimock of New York and 
South Coventry for invaluable aid, without which this work 
would never have been written. Her privately printed records 
of Coventry placed a flood of information in my hands, and in 
addition I have had the benefit of her private memoranda taken 
from to\\Ti records and tomb-stone inscriptions. 

A complete list of others who have assisted me would cer- 
tainly include ex-Speaker Winthrop,* and his son, Robert C. 
Wiiithrop, Jr.,* of Boston; Judge Richard A. ^Vheeler,* and 
his daughter. Miss Grace D. Wheeler of Stonington; Roswell 
Richardson* of Waitsfield, Vt. ; Newton Reed,* author of the 
''History of Amenia," and his daughter, Miss Mary H. Reed; 
Hon. Roderick Richardson* of lioston ; Miss Helen Wilkinson 
Reynolds of Poughkoepsif ; Frank Lorenzo Hamilton of Meri- 
den, Conn. ; Mrs. Irving Robinson of Elizabethtown, N. O. ; 
Judge Gilbert Collins of Jersey City; John L. Richardson of 

♦Deceased. 



Bloomsburgh, Pa. ; Dr. George Denison Stanton of Stonington ; 
Reuben H. Smith, editor of the Thomaston (Conn.) Express; 
Major Azel Ames of Wakefield, Mass. ; Miss Charlotte S. 
Mann of New York; and Mrs. Frank L. Howe of Northfield, 
Vt. 

To these and many others I tender most hearty thanks. 
My effort I trust may lead some one more competent than I to 
write a full genealogy of the family. 

Undoubtedly some will be disappointed because I have not 
given more data outside of my own direct line. This I could 
not do, as it involved more work and expense than I was able to 
undertake. 

This account is marked second edition because a year ago 
the first three generations were put in type and a hundred copies 
printed and circulated to assist in getting further information. 
Important additions and corrections have since been made, 

R. L, Richardson. 
403 West 126th Street, 
New York. 



The Xame-RICHARDSON. 



ACCORDIA'G to Camdeu's -Remains," Richard the Little, 
-..n of Lord Belward, soon after the jSTonnan conquest 
had a son called John Richard-son, taking his father's 
name with the addition of son for his surname. "Hence came 
tlie name and fiunily of Richardson." This is quoted in the 
"Richardson .Memorial," and gives color to the erroneous sup- 
position that the ditferent families by the name of Richardson 
have descended from a common ancestor by that name. 

Xor does it add much to our knowledge to know that 
Richard was a Xorman name. At the time that surnames came 
into use in England about the thirteenth or fourteenth century, 
Richard was a common Christian name among all classes. As 
Richard Grant White states, "the conquerors' laug-uage yielded 
to the strength and the foothold of the English speech, but their 
names were diffused all over England, and within less than a 
century and a half had almost wholly driven the English names 
out of the country." Charles W. Bardsley, an English au- 
thority on names, says, "The Norman list was really a small one 
Init it took possession of the whole of England. * * * * 
X'arious methods to secure a personality arose. The surname 
was adopted and there were John Atte-wood, John the Wheel- 
wright, John the Bigg, and John Richard's son in every com- 
munity. Among the middle and lower classes these did not 
IxKxmie hereditary till so late as 1450 or 1500." 

Next to Jolni and William, Richard was one of the names 
most frofpiently used during the four Inuidred years preced- 
ing the iieforuuition, and presumably hundreds of Richardson 
families d(a*ived their name from ancestors who had been christ- 
enc^l Richard, but had no connection with each other. 

Ill Ilurke's "General Armory" for 1844 is given a descrip- 
tion of the arms of twenty-one different Richardson families, but 
it is not known that any of the early settlers by that name, in 
America, liad the right to use arms. 



AMOS RICHARDSON. 



THERE is nothing known about Amos Richardson prior 
to May 22, 1639. On that date he was a witness 
at Boston with Stephen Winthrop of a deed from 
Governor Winthrop to Thomas Purchase. He was 
born probably about 1623, as the Boston Court Archives have 
his affidavit when he was "aged forty years or there abouts." 
This is without date, but there was one by Mary Harmon, 
June 11, 1663, for the same case. The Genealogical Dic- 
tionary, by the late James Savage, says, ''Amos Richardson 
of Boston, merchant tailor, perhaps one of that great London 
guild." "A man of great enterprise and good estate." '*A 
good letter from him to Fitz John Winthrop at Car dross in 
Scotland, written September 13, 1659, signed Amos Richard- 
son, was given to me." 

Mr. Savage must have learned some things about him which 
are now unknown; at least the letter referred to cannot be 
found. 

In some of the Winthrop family letters he is described by 
his Christian name only.* 

*From Lucy Downing (wife of Emanuel Downing and sister of 
John Winthrop, the elder) at Salem to John Winthrop, Jr., at New 
London, Dec. 17th, 1648. 

"I then writ to Amos to get the butcher to pay my sonn Stoder 
3 pounds ten in peas and would pay William but Amos could not 
preuayle." — ^ 

From Governor John Winthrop at Boston to John Winthrop, Jr., 
at Hartford, Feb'y. 3rd, 1649. "You wrote to Amos about prices of 
beife and pork." "I think he will write to you not to send any as it will 
not yield above 3d the pound at most." 

From Adam Winthrop at Boston to John Winthrop, Jr., at New 
London, May 3rd, 1649. 

"According to your desire I haue lett the orchard to Amos and 
Goodman Gridley" * * * "Amosse has bought a maid servant for 
you, if you haue occation for one. She is for 4 yeers, & is to be paid 
for hir time." 



8 

He was closely connected witli the Wintlirop family for 
many years, acting under a power of attorney for Stephen while 
the latter was in England, being associated with Dean as cue 
of the proprietors of Groton, and looking after many business 
nuitters for ^Mrs. Downing. He was the agent for Governor John 
Winthrop, the yoimger, and with him gave ci'edit to Samuel 
Wiuthrop, of St. Christophers, in the West Indies.* He also 
acted for Capt. Wait Winthrop as umpire in a mill dispute. 

In addition to carrving on the business of merchant tailor, 
he soon became a general trader throughout the colonies, and, 
with his own vessels, to the West Indies. He acquired large 
tracts of land, probably as many as five thousand acres, at Ston- 
ington, New London, and in the Narragansett country. 

During the early histoiy of Massachusetts there were no 
practicing lawyers and a number of business men acted as 
attorneys. It is stated that Amos Richardson was one of the 
three most active attomevs in the law courts during the life of 
the iNfassachusetts colony. 

On July 6, 1642, he bought a house and lot, being an acre, 
more or less, of George Bromer (late purchased of James 
Slokos), for seventeen pounds. Stephen Winthrop and John 
Tinker were witnesses of the deed. The land was situated on 

•Letters from Samuel Winthrop to John Winthrop, Jr. 

"St. Xtophers, Sept. 8th 1657." 

"I am infinitely ingaged to yor self & Mr. Richardson, & so sensible 
thereof that I will not call any thing of wt God hath lent mee mine 
untill I haue to ye utmost farthing discharged that ingagement." 

"Antigua, Nov. 8th, 166.3. As to Mr. Richardsons debts here, I 
have had much trouble with it; & last year by seurall discompts & 
changes, I brought ye debt into my hands." "It was ye 1 Aug. 1662. 
"Since wch here hath been no conueyancc, nor I could not send a letter 
nor any relief to my children." "It troubles me much he hath it not." 

"My last to him was 27th Aug. last: in wch I begged of him to 
order some vessell to call for it about June next, for we make sugr only 
In ye spring & summer; after July none." 

"Sept. 1604. I haue here reddy for Mr. Wharton 20 odde thousand 
pounds of sugr for Mr. Richardson & to supply my sonnes. I expect 
his catch from Barbadoes euery day. I wish she were well gone wth 
lit, that Mr. Richardson might rayle no more at me. I hope when I 
haue stopt hla mouth full of interest & allowance between money and 
country pay (though mine hath all bin mony pay to him all along) 
that he will hold his peace." 



9 

what is now the north side of Summer Street, where Hawley 
Street has been cut through. It w^as then a rear lot with no 
street connection; Summer Street not being laid out until 1645. 

A Commission was appointed September 15, 1645, "to lay 
out a new way through the gardens towards the wind-mill." 
''To begin between Nicholas Parker's house and Robert Rey- 
nold's garden (on Washington Street) and go forth, between 
Amos Richardson's and John Palmer's house." 

In 1683 Hawley Street was called Richardson's lane.* 

This was his home for more than twenty years and prob- 
ably until he moved to Stonington (about 1663) ; here all of his 
children were born. During the next fifty years Summer Street 
became one of the finest residential streets in Boston ; adjoining 
the site of Amos Richardson's home the first Trinity Church. 
was erected. 

On March 22, 1647, he purchased two acres from Francis 
Smith, fronting on the Common at what is now the southeast 
corner of Tremont and Winter Streets. He owned other prop- 
erty in Boston, some of it near the Winthrop dock. Capt. 
James Johnson and Peter Oliver were partners with him in 
some of this wharf property. 

On June 20, 1661, Col. Stephen Winthrop deeded to him 
the northeast comer of Governor Winthrop's home lot; it does 
not appear in the deed what the consideration was. Emanuel 
DoAAming was one of the witnesses. This lot was about 24 feet, 
on Washington Street, by 54, on Spring Lane, and adjoined the 
Colonel's house and land. The remainder of the Winthrop estate 
subsequently became the property of Old South Church, on the 
southwest corner of which the present historic "Old South" was 
erected in 1Y29. 

In 1679 he gave this lot to his daughter Sarah, and her hus- 
band, Timothy Clarke. It was then described as "AH my 
Messauge or Tenement late in the tenure & occupation of Sarah 
Pickering widdow deed." 

He also obtained a number of grants of land, very early in 
the settlement, at Pequot. The New London town records show 
the following : "Memorandum for town meeting Sept. 20, 1651, 
Amos Richardson is to have a lot." 



*Suffolk Deeds, Vol. xiii— 434 



10 

Caulkiu's History states that lie was iium Boston and had 
commercial deaiiugs with the planters and that instead of taking 
up a new lot he purchased that of Kichard Post on Post Hill. 
"Aug. y, IGoo. House lot to Amos Richardson's brother, the 
millwright (afterwards called brother-in-law)." 

"He had subsequently a grant of a large fami east of the 
river under the same vague denomination: he has not been 
identified." 

"Two necks of land extending into the Sound, one called 
'a pyne neck/ with a broad cove between them, was granted to 
Isaac Willey and by him sold to Amos Richardson." 

"Still another containing several hundred acres of land and 
separated from Hugh Caulkin's land by a brook called Mistuxet, 
was laid out to Amos Richardson and his brother in 1653."* 

Part of this division Avas known by the Indian name of 
"Quonaduck." 

In October, 1661, Antipas NewTuan, of Wenham, sold him 
a large tract of land, called Caulkin's Xeck, bounded by the 
above Quonaduck farm on the East, Caulkin's brook West, Capt. 
George Denison's North, and South by the Sea. 

Pequot, now ISTew London, embraced the present town of 
Stonington, where the last three of the above described grants 
Avere located, * 

. The deed of the Indian sachem Nealewort for a part of this 
land was dated August 26, 16.58, and is recorded at Stonington. 
It is described as "a tract of land called Quinabogue lying and 
being near to the country of the Late Pequed Indians for and in 
consideration of the great Love and affection I beare unto Amos 
Richardson of Boston in the Mass. Colony, Englishman. * * * 
contain l)y measure one English mile and half square on each 
side of that River called Quinabogme River next Adjoining to 
ye land or farme granted to John Winthrop Esq. Governor of 
the English Colony on Connecticut River northward of the said 
farme and is called by the name of Nayumscut and Quadueca- 
tuck." 



•Abigail Richardson married John Marrett at Boston, on July 20, 
1654, and they had a son Amos, but that was a year too late for the 
conjecture that he might have been the brother-in-law referred to. 
Amos was then quite an uncommon name in New England. 



11 

Wheeler's ^'History of Stonington" locates this property as 
"the land lying between Stonington Harbor, Lambert's Cove and 
Stony Brook on the east, Fisher's Island Sound on the south, 
and Quiambaug Cove on the west up to a point, from which a 
direct line easterly passing about thirty rods south of the resi- 
dence of Mr. Henry M. Palmer to Stony Brook, constituted the 
north boundary line of said tract of land." 

The family name of Mary, wife of Amos Eichardson, is un- 
known ; he did not, however, have a second wife, as stated in the 
"Eichardson Memorial." It is probable that they were married 
in 1642, the year that he purchased his house and garden. 

It is conjectured that the brother-in-law referred to above 
was Richard Smith, of Lancaster, a "mill-wright," whose first 
wife Mary died with her infant March 27, 1654, and who mar- 
ried, on the 10th of the following August, Joanna Quarles at 
Boston. 

It is quite certain that John and Maiy Smith, who are 
claimed to have been the parents of Richard were not the parents 
of Amos Richardson's wife. 

They had a daughter Alice, however, who probably became 
the second wife of John Tinker, a man very closely associated 
with Amos Richardson. 

He named one of his sons Amos and the inventory of John 
Tinker's estate* shows that a farm of 240 acres and other 
property had been deeded to Mr. Richardson for the use of John, 
Mary and Amos, children of John Tinker. 

In 1656 the eight proprietors of Groton included this 
Richard Smith, with Dean Winthrop, John Tinker and Amos 
Richardson. Soon after this he moved to Lyme, Conn., where he 
was a deputy in 1678-9. 

His children were ]^i chard (probably by his first wife), 
John, bom 1655, Francis, 1657, James, Elizabeth, who married 
John Lee. He had a grand-son named Quarles Smith, and the 
Lyme records mention two Roland grand-sons. 

Mary Smith died in 1659 and her husband in July, 1669. 
In May prior to his death John Smith gave all of his estate to 
his son in-law, John Moore, in consideration for support ; his 

*Manwa]-iTis;'s "Hartford Probate Records" Vol. 1.— 244. 



12 

will mentions only four children — John, Richard, Ann and 
Alice. There were so many John and Richard Smiths that it 
is very difficult to untangle their history. The Diary of Thomas 
Minor, of Stonington, refers to Amos Richardson and his family 
more than eighty times. On October 29, 1660, he says, "carried 
the firkin of butter to Mr. Smith for Amos." November 2, 
1660, ''I weighed Amos his firkin of butter at Mr. Smith's." 
The follo"\ving receipt for a horse delivered in the presence of 
Thomas !Minor, Jr., and Ephriam Minor is also found in the 
Diary: '^Delivered unto poor man mine (torn) A horse that he 
bout of mister Richinsoone and by his appointment and order 
a horse a chestnut Culer with a blase in his face." * * * 
"I Say by mee delivered this 14 day of aguste 1661 with my 
hand Richard Smith." Mi". Richardson at this time lived in 
Boston. 

There w^as also a James Smith at Rehoboth, and on Sep- 
tember 7, 1653y Amos Richardson was appointed administrator 
of his estate. This was a month after the lot referred to was 
granted at ^ew London. Nothing further is knowoi about him ; 
but He may have been a brother of Richard. 

Another Richard Smith was associated w'ith Richardson 
and Tinker in the Atherton Company. He was born in Glou- 
cestershire in 1596 and died at Wickford, R. I., in 1666; he 
established a trading house there in 1687 and was a man of note. 
He had two sons — Richard, who died without issue in 1692, and 
James, who died unmarried in 1664. 

The Salem Court records show that on October 14, 1656, 
Major John Hauthorne and Amos Richardson w^ere plaintiffs 
in. a law suit against John Divan, which was adjourned to the 
next General Court. That is all that is known about it ; but they 
must have had a joint interest in some property. 

On March 8, 1662, Edward Hutchinson, William Hudson 
and Amos Richardson were sent to Rhode Island with a letter 
from Massachusetts to settle troubles in the Pequot country. They 
could not have been well received, for two years later the Rhode 
Island General Assembly denounced them as intruders. 

Amos Richardson probably moved to Stonington, Conn., 
about 1663, but also retained a residence in Boston for a number 
of years. 



13 

His name appears in tlie list of inhabitants of Narragansetl 
in July, 1663, and of Wickford in May, 1668 ; but while he had 
landed interests there it is evident that he never had an actual 
residence in Rhode Island. 

The Diary of Thomas Minor notes, under June 19, 1661, 
that Mr. Kichardson's house was raised and on June 22, 1663, 
that his son was to finish it that day. 

Amos Richardson was one of the most active members of 
the so-called Atherton Company later called the Narragansett 
Company, and he must have taken a leading part in the or- 
ganization of it. This is evident from the following letter : 

Boston, July 9, 1659. 

To the much -honored John Winthrop, Esq., 

Governor of Connecticut Colony, at Hartford, this present : 

Honored Sir, — After my service presented unto yourself 
and Mrs. Winthrop, and all yours for whose absence I was 
troubled that I did so unhappily to delay one day too long in my 
coming to ISTew London, so that I could not speak with you 
there, I had thoughts to come up to Hartford ; but the weather 
being so hot, I darest neither venture myself nor my horse. Sir, 
you may remember, when I spoke with you last at !New London, 
I gave you a hint of my intents concerning the Narragancet 
country, which business, as I conceive, is fully effected with the 
chief sachem. 

The quantity, as T judge, is twelve mile alongst in ISTar- 
ragancet Bay. The trading-house being in the middle, it judged 
to be the only place in the country for a plantation. There are 
at present seven purchasers besides yourself. The purchase hath 
cost six score pound. Many there is that would willingly join 
in it ; but Ave shall do nothing before we speak with you, yourself 
being mentioned first in the purchase. 

Those that are concerned in it is Major Adderton, Mr. 
Smith and his son, Lieut. Hudson, Captain Hutchinson, Mr. 
Tinker and myself. But if this come once to be settled, it will 
make Quinnebawge of greater value. 

As concerning our friends at Wennam, Mr. Newman was 
here the last week ; but Mr. Mygate hath been there since, who 
can inform you concerning their health. As for news I have 



14 

got not any at present, only things are pretty sad in regard of 
old Mr. Duncome in respect of bis last losses disenables bim of 
satisfying bis creditors. Tbey now coming upon bim forcetb 
bim to leave off bis dealings, and I doubt bis son in the same 
condition ; so by this we may see the vmcertainty of these out- 
ward things. Thus I rest yours to command, 

Amos Richerdson. 

Sir, I would entreat you to remember my service to Mr. 
Stone. 

The grant to the Atherton Company was in the present town 
of North King-ston, R. I., in the ]**J^arragansett territory which 
was claimed by Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, 
and the disputed claims to o^vnersbip were not settled for more 
than fifty years. 

Between the colonics of Connecticut and Rhode Island a 
bitter controversy was carried on which at times nearly re- 
sulted in open warfare. Mr. Richardson had other large landed 
interests in the disputed territory, and was very active in press- 
ing the claims of Connecticut, probably more so than any other 
man in the colony. 

^fajor John IMason, the noted Indian fighter, seems to have 
opposed the action of his colony, probably on account of his 
friendship for Roger Williams. This so exasperated Amos 
Richardson that he publicly denounced him as a traitor to the 
colony. 

In IfiYO Mason sued bim for d^efamation of character and 
appealed to the General Court for the appointment of a commit- 
tee to investigate the charge. He secured a judgment for 100 
pounds damages in the Comity Court, luit the case was appealed 
and bof(tre further action l\rnson died, which ended the matter. 

In lfi77, Amos Richardson sold 180 acres of land situated 
on the east side of the Pawtucket River, to Thomas Wells, who 
afrreed in payment to build a vessel of fifty tons. This land was 
located in the disputed territory, and in IfiYO Wells refused to 
fulfil hi= contract until Mr. Richardson should make cfood the 
tillf to the land. 

In March, IfiSO, suit was brought against Wells for 300 
pounds damages and he was arrested at Westerly by Stephen 
Richardson, the plaintiff's son, a constable from Stonington. 



15 

Early in July following Stephen Richardson was seized at 
his home by warrant of Governor Sanford of Rhode Island for 
making this arrest, and carried to ISTewport. A sharp letter from 
the Connecticut Council followed, demanding his release and 
for peace sake agreeing not to meddle on the east side of Paw- 
tucket River till the matter was decided in England. 

The Governor replied, giving the reason for the arrest and 
retaining the prisoner for trial. The Council issued a formal 
protest against the conduct of Rhode Island and in retaliation 
caused the arrest of Joseph Clarke, of Westerly, on July 21. 

Stephen Richardson was held by the Rhode Island author- 
ities for about three months and in October released. A full 
account of this affair is given in Connecticut Colonial Records 
for 1687, paOTS 286-29l/ 

Amos Richardson was not a member of the church, either 
in Boston or Stonington, and that is probably the reason for his 
not beins: made a freeman until May, 1665. His wife united 
with the Eirst Church in Boston, December 2(5, 1647, when her 
second child, John, was 28 days of age. The celebrated John 
Cotton was the minister at this time, and all of her children were 
baptized by him, in her right. At Stonington she was an 
original member of the church and attended the first communion 
service September 10, 1674. 

Amos Richardson appears to have been a religious man; 
he educated his eldest son for the ministry at Harvard College. 
Wlien this son was married he was so pleased that he gave him 
a farm of a thousand acres at Stonington. 

The following Instrument was signed and recorded at Boston by 
Amos Richardson, October 12, 1673. "This may certify to whom it may 
concern that "Whereas (by the providence of God) my oldest son, John 
Richardson, hath made his choice of a wife with my approbation and 
suddenly intends marriage, I therefore thought good to signify unto 
him and to all whom it may concern that for his future comfortable 
subsistance. I do hereby under my hand declare that after my de- 
cease and my wife, yt all that farm called Quanaduck farm which now 
I live upon with all the appurtenances of houses and land and com- 
monage, shall belong to my son, John Richardson, aforesaid to be to 
him and his heirs forever, provided I do possess of it. I do further 
engage in the meantime that I will not any way dispose of said farm 
except it be for the settling of an estate upon my son ye said John 
Richardson to his acceptance in some other place, as witness my hand." 



16 

In both of the published letters from him to Governor 
Winthrop at Hartford he sends his regards to the Rev. Samuel 
Stone. For a number of years they had no way of heating the 
church at Stonington, and during the winter months the Sim- 
day services and other church meetings were often held at the 
residence of Amos Richardson, situated a little east of the 
meeting house and probably a large house.* 

Jolm Gore of Roxbury, by his will in 1657, appoints John 
Pierpont, Phillip Eliot, and Amos Richardson executors, and 
c^lls them "my beloved brotheren." 

Amos Richardson was a man of great force of character and 
of untiring energy. He had a number of controversies, but there 
is nothing to show that he was unreasonable in enforcing his 
rights. 

He was a deputy from Stonington to the Connecticut Gen- 
eral Court from 1676 to 1681 and was honored with other public 
offices. It is clear that he was held in great esteem by the Win- 
throp family. The following letter was from Governor John 
Winthrop. the younger: 

(Hartford), Sept. 25, 1673. 

Loving Friend; Mr. Amos Richardson. — Mr. Jonathan Gilbert 
spake to me of your desires of accommodating you some land, neer 
the river of Pacatuck adioying to your land there, for the convenience 
of your son, who maried his daughter, for setting his house there. 
I though fitt therefore to certify you heerby that I shall willingly, 
and freely accommodate you therein, according to such right or inter- 
est as I have therein in resignation thereof to yourselfe: and there- 
fore you may goe on in yt building, for your son there as is intended, 
not doubting of any kindnesse yt I can doe for your convenience 
therein. The oportunity is hasted, and therefore shall only add my 
loving remebrance to yourselfe & your wife, with your son & daughters, 
& am Your assured friend, 

J. WINTHROP. 

♦Letter from Wait Winthrop to Fitz-John Winthrop. 

Boston, Jan'y. 30, 1687. 

"Just now he (Mr. Jonathan Smellows) tells me he is advised to 
see Mr. Richardsons farme." "It may be the convenience of the hous- 
ing there may invite him." 



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Fitz-John Winthrop at New London, (month torn), 7th, 1673, 
(perhaps Oct. 7), to Governor Winthrop at Hartford. 

"The enclosed is a coppy of the record of the grant by the towns- 
men for the piece of land and priuiliges of Pacatack riuer, w'ch Mr. 
R. told me you ordered me to send vp. I suppose the designe is to lay 
it to some land w'ch he intends to giue his son neare the same place. 
I suppose it is the piece [of] land w'ch the most desire, being a very 
fine plane and I believe may deserue a little consideration (if you 
please to think fit) before you [dispjose of it." 

Lucy Downing, at East Hatlie (England), Feb'y. 15th, 1663, to 
John Winthrop, Jr., at his lodgings in Coleman Street, London. 

"If y'r occasions shall draw you to Boston, I pray you commend 
my love and service to my sister Norton, to Mr. Endlcot & his lady, 
to honest Mr. Richardson & his wife, and to all such who shall enquire 
of mee." 

Christopher Gardyner at Boston, July 2, 1656, to John 
Winthrop, Jr., at Pequitt: 

Sir: — "I cannott but returne you most humble thanks for yr 
favours and civilities both in yr usage of us your selfe, and in yr re- 
comendation of us to honest Mr. Richardson, who has indeed expressed 
much kindness to us and as becomes one who does much honour 
you." 

Lucy Downing, Edenb., (Scotland), Feb'y 23, 1658-9, to Fitz-John 
Winthrop, at Cardrosse, (Scotland). 

Dear Nephew: — "I have reed a let'r from Mr. Richeson, dated the 
27 Decemb'r last, and one inclosed to yo'r selfe alsoe, mentioneing that 
yo'r father and all our frieuds there were then in good health; alsoe 
that they had foure moneths of much raigne, which had occasioned 
great prejudice to their corne, and scarsity of hay, and that there was 
gene'lly much sicknes and mortallity, but the begining of winter was 
very cold & frosty; and what further was of particular concerne to 
my owne busines, and that yo'r eld'st sister is married to one Mr. 
Newman, a minister whom they judge to be a very good match for her, 
but I suppose you will have in yo'r owne more perticularly." 

Lucy Downing, Edinburgh, (Scotland), March 27, 1658 to John 
Winthrop, Jr. 

Sr: — "I thank you much for your great care of my troublesome 
small business, and I question not but Mr. Richardsonn hath done his 
best, but knowing the difficulty of New England, I marvell not at the 
delay, but it seemes things were not fully perfected betuxt the mer- 
chant and him, but I shall waite his further intelligence." 

Lucy Downing, East Hatlie, April 20th, 1662, to John Winthrop, Jr., 
at his lodgings in Colman Street, London. 

I pray present my servis to my neece your wife, and to all yours. 



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with you, and ellswhear, and my servis to my nephewe, Dean Win- 
throp and his wife when you write, and to Mr. Amos Richardson. The 
letter you sent was a kinde letter from him, but he mentions nothing 
of hopes to mende my bargin." 



William Cheseborough, Avho died in Juue, 1667, by his will 
speaks of Kev. James Xoves and Amos Richardson as "my 
truly and well-beloved friends.'' 

A large part of the collection of manuscripts known as the 
"Winthrop Papers" has never been printed. They belong to 
the estate of the late Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., of Boston, who 
died on June 5, 1905, leaving them by his mil to the Massachu- 
setts Historical Society. In 1895 Mr. Winthrop gave the 
author the following information concerning the letters of Amos 
Richardson in this collection: "In looking through the unpub- 
lished MSS in my possession I find (if I have counted correctly) 
fifty-one letters of Amos Richardson. A number of them are 
without date and some are badly torn. Of those bearing dates, 
the earliest is November 10, 1648, the latest October 14, 1674. 

"They chiefly relate to matters of business, either business 
in which the writer was acting for members of the Winthrop 
family or business in which he was interested with them. He 
appears to have been a person in whom Governor John Win- 
throp, the younger, had great confidence. So far as I have found 
time to partially decipher them I should say that reference to 
l)ublic affairs are few in comparison and I have not happened 
to notice a single allusion to the writer's family. 

"The letter of September 13, 1659, mentioned by Mr. 
Savage, is not among them. There is a memorandum 'one taken 
out' in my father's hand, but it evidently refers to the one he 
gave yon. 

"To thoroughly decipher the whole fifty-one letters would 
be the work of an expert with a magnifying glass for many days, 
and I could not undertake it nor could I at present suffer anyone 
else to do so. 

"In addition there is one letfer from Mary Richardson, 
dated February 18, 1672, and four from Rev. John Richardson, 
of TTewburv, l'677-1693." 



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In 1878, the Hon. Robert C. Wintlirop presented the author 
of this sketch with an original letter from this collection. It was 
written to Governor John Winthrop, the younger, at Hartford, 
and indorsed on the back with the name of tlie ^vriter, by 
Governor Winthrop. The writing is still plain and legible. 

Boston, Tebruary, day the 2, 1659. 

Hounoured Sir, after my service presented to you and 
^P Winthrop, by this you may be pleased to understand I have 
received yours by Edward Messenger, by which we understand 
of your good health, for which we rejoice. 

Sir, kere is a ship lately come from England, heavy laden 
with sad newse, the particulars I doubt not but you will have 
by better inteligence.* I have only sent you a coppy of a letter 
by Edward Messenger, which came out of England, and you 
may inform yourself of some newse. 

Sir, my emest desire is that you would persuade M^ Erits 
to return home.:}: Concerning the farme, the court referred it to 
a Comitty, but as yet hath done nothing, for our friends at 
Wennam, I know nothing but they are all in good health, this 
with my service presented to yourself, M^ Winthrop, M^ I>iicy 
and M^ Marget and to all the rest of the Gentlewomen, my 
service also to M^ Stone. 

Yours to serve, 

Amos Richardson. 

Amos Richardson died August 5, 1683, at his residence, 
"Quiambog Earm," Stonington. 

Thomas Minor notes in his Diarv: "mr. Richardson sent 
ffor mee sabath day the ffift about one a clok in that mr. Richard- 
son departed this life." Also on the 17th following: "mistris 
Richardson made her will." 



*The "sad newse" was concerning the overthrow of the English 
Commonwealth and restoration of the Stuarts. 

:f:"Mr. Frits" means young Fitz John Winthrop, son of Gov. Win- 
throp, at that time a Cromwell officer in Scotland, and some years 
after himself Governor of Connecticut. 

fManwaring's "Hartford Probate Records" Vol. 1. — 63. 



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His wife was appointed bj his will as sole executrix, but she 
died early in the following month, and their sons, Stephen and 
Samuel, were appointed executors. f Both wills were probated 
bv the General Court in 1683. 

Amos Kichardson's residence was located two miles north- 
west of the railroad station at Stonington, on what is now called 
Palmer's Hill. The exact location of his house cannot be de- 
termined, but it was probably five or six hundred feet south of 
the residence of Henry M. Pahner and it was the opinion of 
Judge Wheeler that part of the framework was used in build- 
ing the Palmer house. 

This is the highest elevation for some miles around and 
from it a beautiful landscape is presented to every point of 
view. Lantern Hill is fifteen miles north, and Pequot Hill, 
where the state erected a monument to commemorate the over- 
throw in 1637 of the Pequot Indians, is about three miles west. 
To the south is Fisher's Island, and beyond it, twenty miles 
away, stands the far-famed lighthouse at Montauk Point. To 
the southeast, overlooking Stonington and Stonington Harbor, 
may be seen Watch Hill and Point Judith, and still further 
away, almost lost to view, lies the storm-beaten coast of Block 
Island. 

The Quiambog farm of Amos Richardson is now the site 
of many beautiful homes, notably those of Mr. Charles Phelps 
Williams and Judge Collins, which are adorned with marked 
evidence of wealth and culture. After this farm became the 
property of his son-in-law, Capt. John Hallam, a new house 
which is still standing was erected on it about a mile nearer the 
harbor. This old Hallam house has been remodeled by Judge 
Gilbert Collins, of Jersey City, and is now his summer home. 

Amos and Mary Richardson had eight children : 
1. Mx\Ry, born at Boston, probably in 1644 or 45, and baptized 
there November 26, 1647. 
In June, 1663, she married Jonathan Gatliffe, of 

Braintree and Boston, Mariner. 
Children: Jonathan, born about 1664; Mary, Dec. 
14, 1665; Thomas, Feb'y 10, 1670; Joseph, 
Feb'y 15, 1673, and John, baptized Dec. 15, 
1673. 



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Her father gave them a house and lot in Boston and 
200 acres of land in Stonington, November 13, 
1673. This property was not to be sold except to 
redeem him from slavery if he should be taken 
captive or to relieve his family in extreme dis- 
tress. 

Jonathan Gatliffe died about February 1, 1675, as his will 
was dated January 28th and the inventory February 15th of 
that year. He left two sons, Jonathan and Thomas, of whom 
Arthur Mason and John Fairweather were the overseers. His 
widow probably married a Mr. Starr, who, in August, 1678, is 
called Mr. Richardson's son-in-law. :j: He apparently was the 
captain of a boat nmning between Boston and New London. 
Perhaps he was Jehosaphat Starr. 

She died probably in the month of August, 1681, as the 
inventory taken after her decease of the household goods belong- 
ing to her sons by Gatliffe was dated September 2nd, 1681. This 
property was purchased by Timothy Clarke, her brother-in-law. 

Eev. JOHN RICHARDSON. 
2. JOHN, son of Amos and ^lary Richardson, born October 28, 
1647, and baptized December 26, 1647. 
He gi'aduated at Harvard College in 1666 as M. A., 
became a Tutor or Resident Fellow of the Col- 
lege, and was mentioned for Fellow in the in- 
tended charter of 1672. At the beginning of the 
difficulties with President Hoar he was absent 
and at the meeting held August 26, 1673, the 
Corporation voted to take no action until Mr. 
Richardson was present; he was then on a visit 
to Connecticut. After his return he with other=; 
resigned, thus leaving the President without sup- 
port and the Corporation without a quorum. 
He may not have agreed in all respects with the opponents 
of Mr. Hoar ; for Judge Sewell. in relation to these difficulties, 
writes, October 16, 1674: "By Mr. Richardson's means I was 
called upon to speak. The sum of my speech was that the causes 
of the lownes of the College were external as well as internal."* 

JMass. Hist. Coll., 5th Series, "Vol. viii. 
♦Sibley's Harvard Graduates. 



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Prior to this, April 16, 1673, he was called as Minister of 
the First Church of Newbury, Mass., and settled there December 
6, 1674, where he was Minister for twenty -one years. The fam- 
ily name of his wife Mary has not been discovered. They were 
married about October, 1673. He preached the Artillery Elec- 
tion Sermon at Boston on June 10, 1675, and again in June, 
1681. The latter was printed if not the former. His children 

were Sarah, born September 9, 1674, John , Mary, July 

22, 1677, Elizabeth, April 29, 1689, and Catharine, September 
15, 1681. 

His will, dated March 29, 1692, left his property to his 
wife, except a small legacy to each of the above-named children. 
It refers to his farm and lands "that lye in Stonington or in 
ye Confines of any To\^ti in Connecticut Colony or else where." 
The witnesses were Daniel Peirce and Thomas l^oyes. 

JSTothing more is known of his wife or children. He died at 
Newbury, July 23, 1696 ; his gravestone at ISTewburyport has 
this inscription : 

"A resurrection to immortality is liere expected for what was 
mortal of the Reverend Mr. John Richardson, once fellow of Harvard 
College, afterwards teacher to the Church of Newbury. 

Put off April 7, 1696." 

3. AMOS, son of Amos and Mary Richardson, baptized Janu- 

ary 20, 1650, probably died young, as there is no 
other account of him. 

4. STEPHEN, son of Amos and Mary Richardson, was bom 

June 14, 1652. He married Lydia, daughter of 
Jonathan and Mary (Wells) Gilbert and resided 
at Stonington, where he was a man of note. See 
second generation following for full account. 

5. CATHARINE, daughter of Amos and Maiy Richardson, 

born January 6, 1655. She married first Captain 
David Anderson, of Charlestown, Mass., Septem- 
ber 12, 1671. On November 12, 1671, Amos 
Richardson and Mary, his wife, of Stonington, 
made a deed of gift to their daughter Catharine 
Anderson, of land and a dwelling house in Boston, 
and a tract of land in the Narragans^tt country. 
Children: John, born July 14, 1675, died young; David, 
bom May 16, 1677, and married by the Rev. Samuel Willard to 



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Hannah Philips on January 5, before 1700. The year is un- 
known. Captan Anderson was master of the ship "Blessing," 
and died on his way home from London in May, 1677. She 
married for the second time Captain Richard Sprague, May 7, 
1679. He was an officer of distinction in the Dutch War of 
1674. They probably had no children. She died July 23, 
1701. 

6. SARAH, daughter of Amos and Mary Richardson, born 

July 19, 1657. She married Timothy Clarke, of 
Boston, Mariner. Captain Clarke was a man of 
some note and was selectman for a number of 
years after 1700. 

Children: Katherine and Sarah, born April 6, 
1687; Sarah, October 18, 1691; Margaret, April 
4, 1697, and Prudence, December 31, 1698. 

On September 11, 1679, her father gave them the 
Winthrop lot previously mentioned. 

7. SAMUEL, son of Amos and Mary Richardson, born Febru- 

ary 18, 1659. He married Anna Cheseborough, 
daughter of ITathaniel and Hannah, of Stoning- 
ton, 1693. He was elected a Selectman in 1706. 
The History of Stoning-ton gives his name in a list of men 
who served in Indian wars. He died in 1712-3, his will being 
dated January 27th and probated March 10 of that year.* 
Children: Samuel, born February 9, 1686, died 1688; Anna, 
born ISTovember 12, 1688, married William Avery, and had 
five children; Prudence, born September 10, 1690, married 
George Plumb, and had two children; Samuel, born April 7, 
1693, died 1695; Hannah, born August 30, 1695, married 
Jonathan Brown, and had six children; Catharine, born Janu- 
ary 16, 1697, married William Thompson, and had eight chil- 
dren; Sarah, born September 26, 1699, married Saxton Palmer, 
and had two children ; Mary, baptized June 30, 1700, married 
Joshua Holmes, and had ten children. 

8. PRUDEISTCE, daughter of Amos and Mary Richardson, 

born January 31, 1661-2. She first married 
March 15, 1683, John Hallam, a sea captain and 

*See further notice in Cheseborough Genealogy. 



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merchant, who resided in Stonington, where he 
died IsToveniber 20, 1700. In 1692 the Eev. 
John Richardson, of ISTewbiuy, his brother-in- 
Liw, leased to liim in peq)etiiitj a tlioiisand acres 
of land for the consideration of five shillings and 
an annual rent of one peppercorn. This was the 
former home of her father. 

"Captain Hallam's possessions w^ere large and his inven- 
tory gives evidence of a style of dress and housekeeping more ex- 
pensive and showy than was common in those days. 

''It contains silver-plate, mantle and coat of broadcloth, 
lined with silk, seventeen horse kind, four negro servants, &c.*" 

Shortly before the arrest of Capt. Kidd in the autumn of 
1699, two of his men are said to have visited Capt. Hallam; 
this threw suspicion on him so that he was required to give 
a bond the exact nature of which is unknown. Hallam died a 
few months later and this bond was subsequently in the posses- 
sion of his family for a number of generations. 

Many years ago Dr. George D. Stanton, of Stonington, ob- 
tained the bond, and later gave it or loaned it to the late Judge 
Wheeler. It is now unknown what has become of it. 

Children: John, born 1684, died young; Prudence, bap- 
tized April 18, 1686, died 1701; Amos, November 20, 1687, 
died young; John, April 13, 1690; Amos, July 6, 1696. 

Amos Hallam married Phebe Greenman and had Prudence, 
September 22, 1717; John ,November 7, 1719, and Phebe, Au- 
gust 13, 1722. 

The last named John married Abigail Noyes, daughter of 
Capt. Thomas, and had Amos, August 26, 1738, who graduated 
at Yale in 1756, married Desire Stanton, daughter of Thomas, 
and was a wealthy merchant at Stonington. Children : John, 
Abigail, Amos, Thomas, Nicholas, Desire, Edward, Alexander 
and Giles Russell. 

Prudence, widow of John Hallam, married second El- 
nathan Minor, a man of note at Stonington, They had one son : 

♦This is quoted from the History of New London. 



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Eev. KICHARDSOiT MINOR. 

Richardson Minor was baptized at Stonington, February 
25, 1705, graduated at Yale College in 1726, married Elizabeth 
Munson and had ten children. He was the Congregational 
minister at Unity (now Trumbull), and also a popular physician 
in a number of towns, including Stratford. During the Great 
Awakening of 1740 he became the leader in Fairfield County of 
a strong party in his denomination who opposed this movement, 
or at least much of the Calvin theology. 

Efforts were made to have Mr. Cold, the minister at Strat- 
ford, dismissed and Mr. Minor called in his place. However, in 
1744, before this question was settled, his name was dropped at 
his own request and he joined the Episcopal church with a large 
number of his followers. He then went to England at the ex- 
pense of his friends to take orders as minister of the Episcopal 
church at Stamford. During the voyage he was captured by the 
French and taken to France. After his release, on his way to 
London, he was stricken with a fever and died at Salisbury, 
probably in the latter part of 1744. His widow died at IS'ew 
Haven in 1751. Their daughter, Henrietta, born 1728, mar- 
ried John Miles, of New Haven, Prudence, the second daugh- 
ter, born 1729, married Philip Benjamin. The other children 
were younger and their names are unknown, f 

In 1833 Richardson Minor (aged 80) was a Massachusetts 
Revolutionary pensioner, residing in Franklin Co. Perhaps he 
was a grandson of Rev. Richardson Minor. 

fSee Histories of Stratford and Stamford and Dexter's Yale Gradu- 
ates. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

STEPHEN RICHARDSON. 



STEPHEN KICHAKDSON, son of Amos and Mary, 
was born in Boston, June 14, and baptized June 20, 
1652, at the First Church (now Congregational Uni- 
tarian). On December 29, 1670, his name appears 
in the list of inhabitants at Stonington who had house lots, he 
then being only a little over eighteen years of age. 

He married Lydia, daughter of Jonathan and Mary 
(Wells) Gilbert* before September 25, 1673, probably during 
that year. This is shown by tlie letter of that date from Governor 
Winthrop, before given on page 16. 

He was well acquainted with the Indian language and w^as 
often employed as an interpreter. 

He served in King Phillip's War in 1675-6 at the time of 
the Great Swamp Eight, and was one of the soldiers who shared 
in the Vol unto wn grant made by the State in 1696. He was 
probably the Quartermaster for the Connecticut troops. On 
May 18, 1676, the Colonial Council authorized him to sell arms 
in his possession in part payment for his services. Minor's 
Diary, December 15, 1675, says: "Coneticut Armie Set forth 
from mr. Pichardsons," and June, 1676, "Thursday, the 15, 
wee were to meet all the soldiers at steeven Pichardsons house." 
He was made a freeman in 1679. After his imprisonment by 
Rhode Island in the summer of 1680, previously referred to, he 
presented a claim to the General Court for damages. In 1687 
he was a representative from Stonington to the General Court. 



♦Jonathan Gilbert was a prominent man at Hartford and Marshal 
of the Colony. In 1654 he visited Ninigrate, the famous Chief of the 
Pequots, and made demands for the Commissioners of the United 
Colonies, returning to Hartford on Sept. 18, with Ninigrate's answer. 
Trumbell's History, I, 222. 

This shows that he was regarded as a very brave and discreet man. 

For Gilbert Family see Appendix A. 

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iSIile's History is authority for the statement that in July, 
liiSd, "Mr. Stephen Richardson shot dead on the sjjot one 
William Trimming, a notorious English decoy in the service of 
the French privateers." Trimming had secreted himself in a 
house on Fisher's Island, and Richardson, with sixteen other 
men, went there to capture him. He was censured by some for 
his action, as they wanted to take him alive. 

Stephen Richardson resided on the Connecticut side of the 
Pawcatuck River at Westerly. The railroad must cross very 
near to where his house was located. 

It is about five miles east of his father's home. This land 
Amos Richardson purchased in 1663 ; it is the property referred 
to by Governor Winthrop and Fitz John Winthrop in 1673; it 
extended along the river for nearly a mile. 

He must have died about 1691, as his widow signed a deed 
on July 1, 1695, in which she is described as "Lydia Relict of 
Mr. Steven Richardson being Executor of my honored husbands 
will and in full power by Act of ISTew London Court and having 
Libertie by my husbands will." 

The following deed to her son Jonathan was dated August 
10, 1696. "Let all men know that I Lydia Richardson Relict 
0^ ye late Steven Richardson of Stonington Do for ye Incoureg- 
ment of my son Jonathan for his present settling with me upon 
that Land which was given him by his Honorred father after my 
decease I say I do by these and att this Present Give him ye one 
half of all the houseing & ye Lands belonging to ye home place 
and that adjoining on ye South side of it which was given to 
JSTathaniel Deceased, that is to say, his part to Joyn to Mr. Noyes 
his land on ye South & to ye River on ye East and so Westerly 
to ye Barns the Barne being his part of out houseing, and ye 
dwelling house, he is to have ye Great Room & half of ye seller 
& ye Poarch Chamber and that ye Promise may be sure to him 
my son Jonathan his heirs and assigns to all purposes & Intents 
for Ever I sett to my hand & Seal this Tenth Day of August one 
Thousand six hundred ninety six; also it is provided before 
signing I give to Jonathan ye Salt meadow that was Nathaniels." 

The will of Mary Gilbert (widow of Jonathan), dated 
May 23, 1700, shows that her daughter, Mrs. Lydia Richardson, 



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had a second husband named Chapman, perhaps Richard Chap- 
man, although Savage suggests William. 

At the Probate Court, !N'ew London, June 3, 1703, Mrs. 
Lvdia Chapman exhibited a deed of gift of lands left her by the 
will of her deceased husband, Mr. Stephen Richardson, late of 
Stonington, to her three daughters, Mary Carder, Rachel Rich- 
ardson and Jemima Richardson. 

Stephen and Lydia (Gilbert) Richardson had at least nine 
children, and it is supposed that he was the only one of his 
family to leave de^scendants in the male line. The following is 
an account of their children : 

1. JONATHAN", son of Stephen and Lydia Richardson, bom 

probably in 1674. He married Ann Edwards. 
See third generation for further account. 

2. STEPHEN", son of Stephen and Lydia, Richardson, was 

bapt. at Stonington June 19, 1681, with Mary 
and Amos. It may be conjectured that he was 
born about 1676, as the record of baptism prob- 
ably names the three children in the order of 
their ages. He married first Joanna ]\[inor, 

daughter of Joseph, of Stonington. She joined the church there 
in 1702. They had a son Stephen, bapt. July 10, 1715, of 
whom nothing more is known. Second, he married Abigail 
Pelham at Newport, R. I., March 25, 1728. She joined the 
church at Stonington in 1733. They had a son David bapt. 
April 6, 1729. 

In 1726, Stephen Richardson was chosen to assist in a 
council at V^luntown in a difference between Pastor and 
church. He was a Selectman for the town for a number of 
years and in 1719 was elected a Representative to the General 
Court. He owned a number of slaves. In 1742 his negro 
servant, Peter, was baptized. ''Crump, negro servant of 
Stephen Richardson, married Deborah, Indian servant of Jona- 
than Richardson," 1739. 

In January, 1745, he moved to Lebanon, Connecticut, 



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and, with his slave Peter,* united with the church there by 
letter from Stonington. He died at Lebanon, August 11, 1749. 
His son David married Rachel Richardson, a daughter of his 
cousin Amos of Coventry, October 28, 1747. Their children 
born at Lebanon were Rachel, July 23, 1748 ; Abigail, Feb. 1, 
1751 ; Stephen, May 1, 1752 ; Betty, March 21, 1754, (married 
at Somers, Daniel Benton, of Tolland, Feb. 18, 1779) ; Annis, 
bapt. Dec. 14, 1755 ; David, bapt. Jan. 23, 1757, (married Eu- 
nice Wood, at Somers, Nov. 30„ 1780.) She died at Enfield, 
Cbnn., Oct. 22, 1784, in her 28th year, according to her tomb- 
stone. He married second Sarah Hudson, at Somers, June 15, 
1785. He sei'ved in the Revolutionary war from that to^VIl. It 
is not known when the family moved to Somers and Enfield, 
which are adjoining towns. There Avas another son, Daniel, who 
erected a monument over the graves of his parents at Enfield, 
"In memory of Mr. David Richardson who died Aug. 5th, 1811, 
in his 83d year. Also Mrs. Rachel his consort who died Jan. 
13th, 1807, in her 79th year. This monument was procured by 
their son Daniel Richardson May 20th, 1817." There was a 
Daniel Richardson, who ser\"ed in the Revolution from Wind- 
ham County. 

3. MARY, daughter of Stephen and Lydia Richardson, bapt. 

June 19, 1681. She married Richard Carder in 
January, 1700. He was lost at sea in 1707. 
Children: Mary, bomi Sept. 29, 1700; Lydia, 
bom Aug. 2, 1702; Rachel, bom Sept. 4, 1704. 

4. AMOS, son of Stephen and Lydia Richardson, bapt. June 

19, 1681. In 1683 his grandfather Richardson 
left him a farm on the east side of the Pawcatuck 
River, then occupied by Mr. Wells. He prob- 
ably died young. 

*In December, 1754, Peter was convicted of passing counterfeit bills 
of credit which another slave had forged. He is described as "one 
Peter, a negro man, late servant to Mr. Richardson, late of Lebanon, 
now deceased." In January, 1755, the Assembly allowed David Richard- 
son of Lebanon, by paying the cost of prosecution and confinement to 
take him from prison "and that the said Peter, serve him, said Richard- 
son, his heirs and assigns, to the day of the death of said Peter, and 
by him and them to be kept within the bounds of said Lebanon." 



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5. SAMUEL, son of Stephen and Lydia Richardson, was bapt 

March 18, 1683, married Sarah Stanton. 
Children: Sarah, bapt. JSTov. 3, 173-1; Mary, 
bapt. May 16, 1736; Mehitable, bapt. Feb. 26, 
1738. 
He died in 1755 and his widow with Capt Gideon Brainard 
was authorized by the Assembly to sell his lands. 

The daughter Sarah married Gideon Brainard, Jr., June 
7, 1753. 

6. RACHEL, daughter of Stephen and Lydia Richardson, 

bapt. May 30, 1686. She w^as unmarried in 1703. ' 

7. LEMUEL, son of Stephen and Lydia Richardson, bapt. Aug. 

12, 1688. He married Mehitable, daughter of 
Capt. John Chapman, of Haddam, Conn., Dec. 
15, 1709. They united with the church at Ston- 
ing-ton in 1710, and he died at East Haddam, 
May 24, 1713, probably having resided there but 

a short time, as in 1712 when his father-in-laVs estate was 

settled, he is called "of Stonington."** 

He left property at Stonington and East Haddam.* Their 

four children were : 

i. MEHITABLE, bapt. at Stonington, March 26, 1710. 

ii. SAMUEL, bapt. at Stonington, May 27, 1711, was prob- 
ably the eldest son, as his father left him twenty pounds 
more than he gave his brother. He married, according to 
family tradition, Pauline or Polly Whitney. He had two 
children and there may have been others. 

(1) Stanton, born at Haddam, Jan. 10, 1755, was 
presumably the Stanton Richardson who served in the Revo- 
lution from Wallingford. 

(2) Lemuel, born in 1761, served in the Revolution 
in the First N. H. Reg., Capt. Farwell's Company. At 

**His widow is presumably the Mehitable Richardson who married 
John Warner at East Haddam, March 21, 1716, and had eight children 
recorded there. 

*Manwaring's "Hartford Probate Records" Vol. 2.-279. 



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the time of his enlistment at Charlestown, IST. H., in 1779, 
his ag-e was given as 18, birthplace Haddam, Conn., height 
5 feet 6^ inches, and residence Westminster, Vt. He mar- 
ried Jeriisha Hedges and had a son, Samuel, born in ISTorth- 
field, Vt., Sept. 26, 1801, who married Catherine J. Val- 
leau and left two children : Samuel William and Katherine 
Phoebe, The former was born at Rochester, E". Y., April 
19, 1850, and is an officer in the U. S. Marine Hospital 
Service, stationed at Wilmington, iN". C. He married 
Emma Cornelia Butler and has a son, William Butler Rich- 
ardson, born Jan. 21, 1880. 

iii. LEMUEL, date of birth or bapt. unknown. He is named 
in his father's will and died March 9, 1722. 

iv. STEPHEN, born in 1713, not mentioned in his father's 
will, probably born after his death. 

8. JEMIMA, daughter of Stephen and Lydia Richardson, 

bapt'. June 19, 1692 ; married first, Green Hun- 
gerford, of East Haddam ; second, Matthew Ful- 
ler. Her children by the former were Lydia, 
born Dec. 1712; Sarah, Dec. 29, 1714; Pru- 
dence, Jan. 18, 1716; Green, Jan. 4, 1718; 
Mary, Dec. 26, 1720; Rachel, Oct. 12, 1722; Lydia, Dec. 30, 
1724 ; Stephen, May 1, 1726 ; Hester, May 22, 1728 ; Elizabeth, 
Jan. 25, 1730 ; Lemuel and Nathaniel, May 23, 1733. 

9. NATHANIEL, no record of baptism. All that is known 

about him is the mention made in the deed from 
his mother to Jonathan in 1696. He probably 
died after his father. 



THIRD GENERATION. 



JONATHAN RICHARDSON. 



JOXATIIAX EICHAEDSOX, son of Stephen and Lydia 
(Gilbert) Richardson, was born before September 10, 
1674, the date of Jonathan Gilbert's will, probably at 
Stonington in that year, Plis parents most likely had 
been married only a short time when the Winthrop letter was 
written, September 25, 1673. He was named for his grand- 
father, Jonathan Gilbert, J who mentions him in his will: "I 
give to my daughter Lydia Richelson 20 shillings." ''I give my 
grand child Jonathan Richelson 5 pounds." There is no record 
of his baptism as there were no church records kept at Stoning- 
ton prior to June 3, 1674. 

The Rev. James Noyes had been holding regular services 
there for ten years, being paid by the town ; but no church 
organization was formed until that year.* 

He married in 1696 Ann Edwards,** daughter of Richard 
and Elizabeth (Tuttle) Edwards, of Hartford, and they resided 
at the homestead on the Pawcatuck River. He died May 7, 1700, 
and the inventory of his estate shows that he owned the home- 
stead, except that his mother had a life estate in one-half of it. 
Also that he had a right in lands at "Quanabooge" (Quiambog). 
The inventory taken May 23, 1700, states that he left a "widow 
and two children Jonathan and Amos the eldest two years and 
an half ould the youngest half a year." "Mrs. An Richardson 
made oath that she had made a true exhibition of his estate." 



J Governor Jonathan Belcher of Massachusetts was another grand- 
child named for him. 

♦Wheeler's history of the First Congregational Church, Ston- 
ington. 

=-*Jonathan Edwards, the distinguished divine, was her nephew. 

For Edwards Family see Appendix B. 

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The inventory shows that he was not a slaveholder, as his 
uncle, Captain Hallam, was, and as some of the Richardson 
family were later. 

On May 23, sixteen days after his death, his grandmother 
Gilbert made her will at Hartford, which contained these pro- 
visions : ''And further the l/7th part of the l/5th part legacy 
here given unto Lydia Chapman shall be paid to the sons of my 
late grand son Jonathan Richelson dec^ when they attain the 
age of 21. * * * And my mind and will is that the rest 
of the fifth part Legacy given to my daughter Lydia, not other- 
wise disposed of to the heirs of the late Jonathan Richelson 
dec^, shall be equally divided amongst the children of my said 
daughter Lydia, which she had by her husband Richardson 
dec^, minors." It should be noted that the Christian name of 
Lydia Chapman's first husband, Richardson, is not mentioned. 
The author of the Gilbert Family* was apparently misled by 
this will into supposing that Lydia Gilbert married Jonathan 
Richardson, and others, including the Richardson Memorial, 
and even Savage's Dictionary, made the same error. 

The children of Jonathan and Ann (Edwards) Richard- 
son were both baptized in the First Church at Hartford. The 
records of baptism are: "Jonathan son to Jonathan Richard- 
son K'ov. 21, 1697," and "Amos June 23, 1700 son to Widowe 
Richardson." 

In 1702 Mrs. Ann Richardson became the wife of William 
Davenport of Hartford. | By a former wife he had one child 
only, William. They moved to Stonington before 1708, and 
from there to Coventry after 1718. Mr. Davenport died in 
Coventry, 1742, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. His 
widow Ann was born in Hartford in 1678, died in Coventry in 
May, 1764. Their children were Humphrey, born 1703, mar- 
ried Hannah Fitch, and resided in Coventry; Ann bapt. 1705, 
married Habakuk Turner of Coventry; Elizabeth bapt. in 1708 
at Stonington, married jSTathaniel Gove of Coventry ; Rachel 
bapt. at Stonington 1715 ; Richard born 1716, settled in Cov- 
entry, where he had six children by wife Alice ; Rachel bapt. in 
Stonington in 1718. 

*N. E. Geneal. Register, vol. IV. 

X Goodwin's Genealogical Notes, page 51. 



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The two children of Jonathan and Ann (Edwards) Kich- 
ardson were: 

1. JOXATHAX, bapt. Xov. 21, 1697, was born a few days 
before, as he was two and a half years of age in 
May, 1700. He married Anna, danghter of Rev. 
Salmon and Dorothy (Noyes) Treat, of Preston, 
Conn., Oct. 25, 1721, and resided at the old home- 
stead of his father and grandfather on the Paw- 
tucket River, in Stonington. Joshua Hempstead notes in his 
diary under date of Xov. 18, 1721, "I went about Stonington as 
far as Jonathan Richardson's att Pocatuck.'' 

On Oct. 13, 1728, Anna, wife of Jonathan Richardson, was 
recommended to the church at Xorth Stonington, and on Xov. 1, 
1730, he was allowed to commune with the church at Stonington. 
On Dec. 6, 1739, his Indian servant, Deborah, was married to 
Stephen Richardson's negro slave, Crump. In 1734 John 
Denison, of Stonington, was plaintiff in a suit against Jonathan 
Richardson, which w^as decided by the Assembly in favor of the 
defendant. 

In 1753, when the highway from Pawtucket Bridge to 
Voluntown was laid out, his dwelling house was mentioned as 
being in the second course after leaving the bridge, and he prob- 
ably built the dam across the Pawtucket below the bridge in 
company with someone on the east side of the river.* He had 
a saw and grist mill which in 1756 he gave to his son, Salmon 
Treat. In 1795 the latter conveyed it (or at least a part in- 
terest) to his son George. 

Salmon Treat Richardson signed a deed in February, 1810, 
for what was probably his remaining interest in the mill prop- 
erty or other lands adjoining. Jonathan Richardson died Xov. 
22, 1773, aged 76,t and his wife March 17, 1777. She was 
born Aug. 26, 1699. They had at least nine children, order of 
birth unknown: 

i. AXNA, bapt. at Stonington, Xov. 24, 1728. 

*See a sketch of "Stonington and Westerly" by Richard A. 
Wheeler, in 1886. 

+See "Treat Family Genealogy," page 497. 



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ii. DOROTHY, bapt. l\ov. 24, 1728, married John Stanton, 
and had ten children : (1) Adam, married Elizabeth Treat, 
(2) Daniel, married Vashti Dickinson. (3) Amos, mar- , 
ried Sarah Draper. (4) George, married Prudence Wood- 
burn. (5) Prudence, married Ashbel Parks. (6) Anna, 
married a Trumbull. (7) Dorothy, died unmarried. (8) 
Maiy, married James Treat. (9) Rachel, married Samuel 
Hajne. (10) Rebecca, married Amos Treat. 

iii. JOII^^, bapt. Mav 28, 1731, married Thankful Worden, 

]Srov. 2, 1778. 

iv. A]\IOS, bapt. May 28, 1731, married Sarah Kennedy Jan. » 
15, 1778, and had a daughter Sarah, born Sept. 3, 1779. 
His wife probably died, for he married llary Meach Nov. 
25, 1782. 

V. SALMO^T TREAT, bapt. with John and Amos, married 
Hannah Wilkerson Aug. S, 1765, and their son George 
Richardson, date of birth unknown, married Sarah Holmes- 
March 30, 1795, and had seven children: Sally, born March 
17, 1796; Hannah, March 10, 1798; George, Oct. 17, 
1800 ; Anna, April 15, 1803 ; Stephen, Dec. 7, 1806 ; Jona- 
than, Oct. 25, 1808, and Thankful, May 29, 1812. 

Col. JAMES RICHARDSOX. 

vi. JAMES, born about 1734, as according to the inscription 
on his gravestone in North Carolina, '^Col. James Richard- 
son died Sept. 29, 1810, aged 76 years." Nothing has been 
learned about him from Connecticut records except that in 
1770 Jonathan and James Richardson, of Stonington, peti- 
tioned the Assembly in a suit against Eleazer Fitch, Jr., of 
Windham, by which it appears that Fitch had obtained a 
judgment against them for about 300 pounds, and that the 
farm and dwelling house of Jonathan Richardson had been 
taken by execution, — '^AVhen there was sufficiency of land 
without said house, and complaining of unfairness in the 
appraisement, also that said Fitch has received considerable 
sums of money of James Richardson aforesaid by the hand 
of Col. John AMiitney, which ought to be deducted out of 
said execution." 



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It appears, bj the records of the Assembly from 1761 
to 1766, that James Richardson, of Stonington, had a con- 
troversy with Benjamin Bancroft, of Sufficld, relating to 
their accounts, the charter of the sloop "Gull" and merchan- 
dize taken by Richardson to sell at Havana in 1762. Ban- 
croft obtained a judgment for 493 pounds, which Richard- 
son refused to pay and was imprisoned. Later he peti- 
tioned the Assembly for a rehearing, which was granted, 
the first judgment set aside, and a new one entered against 
him for 132 pounds, which was settled in 1766. 

The first information received by the author about Col. 
Richardson was from a letter by the late Col. John A. Rich- 
ardson, of Elizabethtown, ]S[. C, to Judge Wheeler in 1872. 
It is now supplemented by further data from his cousins, 
Mrs. Irving Robinson, of Elizabethtown, and Dr. William 
M. Richardson, of Boardman, Fla.* 

This shows that James Richardson, of Stonington, 
was shipwrecked off Cape Hatteras, shortly before the Revo- 
lution, while on a voyage to the West Indies with a cargo of 
flour. Subsequently he settled on the Cape Fear River, in 
Bladen Co., N. C. He had previously been a soldier in the 
French and Indian war, and M^as with General Wolfe at 
the storming of Quebec. He had a sigter Pnidence at 
Stonington, who married a Watson or Woodburne; also a 
brother Salmon, who was a merchant in Boston, where he 
died. 

James Richardson served in the Revolutionary war 
and became a colonel in the American army. He had t^vo 
cousins in ISTorth Carolina, Samuel and Nathaniel Rich- 
ardson.** The latter served in the Revolution, was a mem- 
ber of the Provincial Congress, and was shot by the Tories 
in Robeson County while on his way to pay off the Whig 
troops. He left no family. 

Col. Richardson's father visited him before his death 
and gave him a Bible which he had brought from England, f 

*Their family tradition is that the father of Col. James Richardson 
was James or Stephen, who came from England to Stonington; in all 
other respects it appears to be substantially correct. 

**It is probable that the cousins Samuel and Nathaniel Richard- 
son were sons, or grandsons, of Lemuel of East Haddam, Conn. 



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It cannot be learned what became of this Bible, although 
Mrs. Robinson remembers having seen it many times when 
a girl at the home of her uncle Edmund Richardson, and 
later at her uncle Purdie Richardson's. 

Col. Richardson married a widow Purdie, whose 
maiden name was Elizabeth ISTeal. Another account is that 
she was a widow Roots and that they were married in 
Jamaica where she owned a large property with 900 slaves. 
She died May 19, 1808, aged 81 years. They had two 
sons: 

(1) Samuel Neal Richardson, born June 11, 1770, 
married Mary Ann Smith, and died March 1, 1831. He 
was a Methodist minister, also a member of the North 
Carolina House of Commons for 1801 and the Senate for 
1802 and 1803. Children: Sophia, James Stephen, Eliza- 
beth, Purdie, Helen, John, Amos, Edmund and Mary Ann. 

The son James S., was a physician located at Moulton^ 
Ala. in 1829, and the father of the above mentioned Col. 
John A. Richardson, who died in 1872. 

Dr. William M., of Boardman, Ela., and Dr. Clement 
L., of Lake Charles, La., are sons of Purdie Richardson. 

The vouns;est daughter, Marv Ann, married Rev. 
Alexander B. Smith who were the parents of Mrs Irving 
Robinson and Mrs. Charles P. Parker. 

(2) Amos Richardson, born in 1772, married Mary 
Haynes, and died March 22, 1812. He was a member of 
the House of Commons from 1802 to 1806. Children: 
Haynes and Samuel. 

vii. STEPHEN RICHARDSON, bapt. June 11, 1738, mar- 
ried Sarah Treat at Wethersfield, Aug. 20, 1765, settled in 
Barkhamsted, Conn., where his wife died May 17, 1831, 
aged 84, and he July 31, 1831, aged 93. He was a hatter 
by trade and acquired considerable property. He is said 
to have been somewhat pompous, in his ways, powdered his 
hair and wore knee breeches and a conspicuous hat. 



fThis old Bible may have belonged to the first Amos Richardson 
and from him handed down from father to son. A Bible is mentioned 
in the inventory of the estate of Jonathan Richardson, grandson of 
Amos. 



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He had three negro slaves, one, a woman, lived to be 
a hundred years of age. Thev had six children : (1) Silas, 
(2) Ralph, and both, according to tradition, settled in 
North Carolina. 

(3) Samuel resided in Barkhamsted, where he died 
leaving four children: Ralzamon, Rollin, Marilla and Ann. 

Rollin had Wellington B. (residence unkno^^ai), Mar- 
rilla (died unmarried) and Mary, who married D. D. 
French. There are no descendants of Samuel Richardson 
living, unless it is through his grandson Wellington. 

(4) Daniel, settled in Twinsburg, Ohio, about 1834. 
He had five children : William Richardson, married and 
died without issue; Edwin Richardson, had a son Julian, 
of Ravenna, Ohio, and a daughter, name unknown ; Daniel 
Richardson, Jr., had a son and a daughter. The names of 
the two daughters of Daniel Richardson, Sr., are unknown. 

(.5) Lemuel, married Sarah Taylor and died July 29, 
1856. Children: Lemuel, Jerusha Wolcott, Emily, Sarah 
and Clara. 

Jerusha W. Richardson is the only daughter living; 
she married John Dempsey, resided at ISTew Hartford, 
Conn., and had five children, one of which is Judge Eugene 
Dempsey, of Danbury. 

The only son of I^emuel and Sarah (Taylor) was 

Rev. LEMUEL RICHARDSON. 

He was born in Barkhamsted May 26, 1829, and in- 
"herited his father's farm, where he resided until about 
1864. He was converted when he was twenty-nine years 
of age and almost at once commenced fitting himself to 
preach the Gospel by private study. He began preaching 
as a Methodist minister in 1859 and is still in active ser- 
vice. After entering the ministry he resided for the first 
five years on his farm and preached at nearby churches. 
Since then he has been pastor of the churches at Rockland, 
East Granby, North Canton and Darien, in his native 
State, and at Huntington and Port Jefferson, N. Y. 



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About twenty-two years ago he came to Brooklyn as 
pastor of the Cook Street Church ; next in 'New York City 
for three years with the Eleventh Street Church. He then 
returned to Brooklyn and has since been in charge of the 
York Street Church, Warren Street Church, Ridley Me- 
morial and JSTorth Fifth Street Church, of which he has 
been pastor for the last six years. 

The Rev. Fred Saunders, an associate with him in the 
ministry, writes of him as follows: "The Rev. Lemuel 
Richardson is one of the most faithful and loyal preachers 
of the Gospel in the ISTew York East Conference of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, as fearless and uncompromis- 
ing as Elijah but as gentle as the beloved disciple John; 
his gentleness and purity of character have made him as 
lovable as he has been efficient." 

He married Martha M. Tiffany, Oct. 22, 1849, and 
has had three daughters : Mary, married M. W. Griffin and 
resides in New Haven ; Xellie G., married James J. Butler 
and died without issue Dec. 2, 1896; Clara L., died un- 
married ISTov. 25, 1900. 

(6) Sally, daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Treat) 
Richardson, married Benjamin Roberts, of Great Ban-ing- 
ton, Mass. She probably has no descendants living. 

viii. RACHEL RICHARDSOX, bapt. March 24, 1745, mar- 
ried John Watson, of South Kingston, R. I., j^ov. 24, 1773. 

ix. PRUDENCE RICHARDSON, date of birth unknown, 
was married to Samuel Woodburn, "both of Stonington," 
by Elder Stephen Babcock, at Westerly, March 4, 1757. 
Presumably the Pnidence Woodburn who married her sis- 
ter's son John Stanton was their daughter. 

2. AMOS, son of Jonathan and Ann (Edwards) Richardson. 
See fourth generation following for full account. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 

AMOS RICHARDSON. 



AMOS RICIIARDSOX, son of Jonathan and Ann (Ed- 
wards), was born probably at Stonington, and in De- 
cember, 1699, as he was six months of ag-e when his 
father died. He was baptized, as before stated, at 
Hartford, June 23, lYOO. His early years were spent there, 
and until his stepfather, Mr. Davenport, moved to Stonington, 
which was before August 8, 1708, when Elizabeth Davenport 
M'as baptized. 

It is uncertain when he settled in Coventry. "The Cen- 
tennial Address," delivered before the church at North Coven- 
try by the pastor, Rev. George A. Calhoun, Oct. 9, 1845, says, 
concerning the founders of the church : 

"Amos Richardson married Rachel Yarrington,* of Long 
Island, and emigrated from Stonington to Coventry in 1717. 
At that period there was no house in the east school district and 
but one in the present limits of the parish. He settled on the 
farm now owned by one of his descendants, Levi Sweetland, 
Esq." 

This date seems improbable when we consider his age and 
the fact that Mr. Davenport was still living in Stonington. 
(Rachael was baptized there May 5, 1718.) 

The earliest record showing a residence in Coventry is a 
<leed of land dated Oct. 4, 1723, from Thomas Lasett, of 
Windham, to Amos Richardson, of Coventry. However, on the 
2nd of the following May, he signed a deed for land in Stoning- 
ton to his brother Jonathan, in which they are described as 
■"both of Stonington," and he as a carpenter. The witnesses to 
the Lasett deed were William and Humphrey Davenport, his 
stepfather and half brother. 

♦For Yarrington Family see Appendix C. 

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The tradition that he was married to Rachel Yarrington 
on Long Island is undoubtedly an error, as there is no reason 
to suppose that any of the Yarrington family resided there at 
the time of their marriage, which must have taken place as early 
as 1724, her first child being born March 20, 1725. 

They were married, probably, at Stonington or Preston. 
It is unknown whether her father moved to Stonington from 
Preston before she was maiTied ; at least one of his sons con- 
tinued to reside at Preston ; her first child was baptized there, 
and at the same time, Sept. 26, 1725, she united with the 
church. This must have been only a few days after her father 
died at Stonington. 

The church in the jSTorth Parish of Coventry was not or- 
ganized until twenty years after this, and Amos Richardson was 
the leading man in securing its establishment. He was active 
in town and church affairs, but there is no record of any military 
services. On Dec. 13, 1725, he was elected Lister and Inspec- 
tor, and during the next fifteen years held many tovm offices. 

He gave a farm to each of his sons. His home was located 
about a half mile southeast of the Coventry church, on the south 
side of the highway leading past the birthplace of ]!^athan Hale, 
two and a half miles farther southeast. After 1850 this farm 
was occupied for many years by Andrew K. Brown and later by 
Capt. George Keeney. 

He died in 1779, the inventory of his estate was taken Nov. 
25, 1779, and his will dated Sept. 18, 1775 ; his wife must have 
died before that time as her name is not mentioned in it. He 
had fourteen children and at least ninety grandchildren. He 
did not achieve fame as his cousins Jonathan Edwards and Gov. 
Belcher, but he certainly pei'petuated a sturdy race. 

The fourteen children of Amos and Rachel (Yarrington) 
Richardson were : 
1. NATHAIST, born at Coventry March 20, 1725, baptized at 
Preston Sept. 26, 1725, and married to Phebe 
Crocker at Coventry, ISTov. 8, 1748. He served 
in the Revolution and was at the battle of Bunker 
Hill, where he lost a gun. He resided for a few 
years in Lebanon, and his daughter Lois was bom 
there in October, 1772. 



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His father's home farm at Coventry was deeded to him 
before the date of his will (of which he was executor), Sept. 18, 
1775, and it is probable that his father was living there with 
him at the time of his death in 1779. He removed to Man- 
chester, Vt., in March, 1780, where he was called Capt. Kichard- 
son and was a prominent man in the town. His twelve children 
were : 

i. EOSAMOND, born at Coventry, July 9, 17-1:9, married 
Daniel Brewster at Lebanon, June 2, 1774. 

ii. Al^DKEW, born at Coventry, Dec. 13, 1750, married 
Mercy Clauson at Lebanon, Oct. 17, 1773. He sei-ved in 
the Revolutionary War from Lebanon, and in 1780 moved 
on an open sled to Manchester, Vt., where he was in the 
service in 1781 and 1782, and in 1806 was a representative 
from that to"\vn. They had six children : 

(1) Eleazer, bom at Lebanon, March 21, 1774. (2) 
John Clauson, bom at Coventry, Sept. 1, 1776, married 
Lucretia Root, Sept. 6, 1804, and died at Manchester in 
1860. Children: Jerusha, born July 5, 1805, died young; 
Aaron C, Jan. 25, 1809,-married Aurilla Howard and had 
Ellen Lucretia, April 21, 1839 (married Asahel Parker), 
and Julia Mabel, March 6, 1842, (reside at Manchester 
Depot) ; Artemesia, born May 11, 1811, died young; An- 
drew E., born Aug. 8, 1813, married Margaret Helen, 
daughter of his second cousin Humphrey Richardson; 
Moses, born May 24, 1817, had two sons and resided at 
Castile, IvT . Y. 

John Clauson Richardson also had two other daugh- 
ters, Caroline and Sophia, of whom there is no record ; both 
died unmarried. 

(3) Rosamond, born Sept. 17, 1778. (4) Andrew, 
born Jan. 13, 1783, married Rachel Boarn, June 24, 1804, 
and had Barnett, April 17, 1805, Hattie Strong, May 6, 
1806, Ophelia, Jan. 29, 1811, Lois Ann and Amos (twins), 
Aug. 25, 1815, and Cyrus, Nov. 27, 1820. • 

(5) Zereniah (daughter), bom Jan. 13, 1785. (6) 
Mercy, bom May 21, 1787. 



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iii. LUOY, born at Coventry, Sept. 3, 1752. 

iv. AMOS, born at Coventry, 'Nov. 26, 1751. He served in 
the Eevohition, from Manchester, in 1780, 1781 and 1782. 

V. JOHX, born Nov. 16, 1756, who served in the Revolution 
from Coventry and probably also in Vermont. His daugh- 
ter Phebe was bapt. at Coventry, Dec, 1780. 

vi. ESTHER, born at Coventiy, Oct. 26, 1758. 

vii. NATHAN, born at Coventry, Oct. 27, 1760, served in 
the Revolution from Manchester. A few years later he 
removed to Burlington, Vt., where he died. His children 
born in Manchester were William Palmer, July 22, 1781, 
and Rhoda, Dec. 31, 1785 ; the former was 

Hon. WILLIAM P. RICHARDSON. 

William Palmer Richardson, sou of Nathan, was well 
educated and excelled as a public reader. He married 
Laura, daughter of Capt. John Lyman, Sept. 23, 1807, 
served in the War of 1812 and was at the battle of Platts- 
burgh. After the war he settled near Jerico Centre, Vt., 
where he was a prominent man and representative from 
Chittenden County in the Legislature for a number of 
years. 

He wrote the early history of Jerico which was pub- 
lished in Thompson's Gazeteer, was especially interested 
in the causes of education and temperance. When more 
than eighty years of age he removed with his wife to But- 
ternuts, Otsego Co., N. Y., resided with his son-in-law, Ed- 
ward Converse, and died Feb. 28, 1871. A further ac- 
count of him is given in Kulp's Wyoming Valley Families, 
Vol. 1. He had a notable family of fourteen children : 

Betsy, the eldest child, born July 8, 1808, at West- 
ford, Vt, married Dec. 17, 1829, Russell French, of Jerico, 
was a teacher, and died April 9, 1830. 

Nathan R., born Jan. 20, 1810, married May 21, 
1837, Emily House, and was a teacher, 

Emily, born Jan. 8, 1812, married in 1834, Rev. 
James Hillhouse, a Presbyterian clergyman, and died in 



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jSTewbem, Ala., April 4, 1835. She was a teacher for 
some years in an Academy at Cohimbns, Ohio. 

Hannah W. (fourth child of William P. and Laura 
L.), born May 31, 1814, married Nov. 4, 1840, Prof. John 
G. K. Truair and died Aug. 31, 1849, at Norwich, N. Y. 
She was for some years in charge of the female department 
of the Giltertsville Collegiate Institute, of which her hus- 
band was the principal. 

John Lyman (fifth child), born Sept. 15, 181G, at 
Jerico, married June 30, 1846, Catharine Heermans, at 
Scranton, Pa. He was a successful teacher for many 
years, and in 1855, while principal of the Madison Acade- 
my at Waverly, Pa., was commissioned Superintendent of 
Schools for Luzerne County. He resided at Bloomsburg, 
M'here he died March 16, 1885. Their nine children were : 

1. Mary Lyman Richardson, born Nov. 17, 1847, married Isaac 
Piatt Hand, May 3, 1871. He is a prominent lawyer at Wilkes- 
Barre, Pa., where they have had eleven children, namely: Eliz- 
abeth, George (both died young), Kathleen, Isaac P. (died April 
8, 1905), Bayard, Laura (married Hamilton Farnham, Sept. 27. 
1904, has daughter Catharine, born Aug. 22, 1905, resides in 
New York), Aaron Hicks (died young), Richardson, Joseph 
Henry, Emily, and Philip Lyman. 

2. Laura Ann Richardson, born July 25, 1849, married first Ed- 
ward Welles, in 1875, second Angus Morrison, in 1879, third 
Asher Miller, in 1888, resides at Santa Cruz, Cal. Children: 
Emily Morrison, Catharine J. Morrison, and Mary Morrison 
who married George Cuthburt. 

3. Galitzin Truair Richardson, born Jan. 19, 1851, resides in Los 
Alamitos, Cal. 

4. Florence Delphine Richardson, born March 14, 1853, married 
Willis Emmons and has a daughter Louise, who resides near 
Sacramento. 

5. Emily Eliza Richardson, born Nov. 14, 1855, married Capt. Wal- 
ter T. Hall of San Francisco. He was a soldier in the Civil 
War and made a record which placed him in the front rank 
with the "bravest of the brave." They reside in San Francisco 
and have a son Walter T., Jr., who married Fi-eda Robb, May 
21, 1902. 

6. William Philip Richardson, born Oct. 6, 1857, resides in Silver 
City, Idaho. 

7. John Lyman Richardson, born March 2, 1863, married Minnie 
Bittenbender of Constantine, Mich., resides at Bloomsburg, and 
has Catharine R., born June 5, 1896, John L., Jr., born July 4, 
1897, and Emily E., born Feb. 21, 1899. 

8. Catharine Heermans Richardson, born Jan. 28, 1866, died in 
infancy. 

9. Harriet Heermans Richardson, born Oct. 28, 1868, married John 
Gordon, resides at Norwalk, Cal., and has Heermans and Laura. 



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William Palmer (sixth child and twin with John 
Lyman), died in infancy. 

Martin P., born June 2, 1818, married, May 12, 
1842, Ann Beecher, of Cambridge, Vt, and was a teacher. 

William Palmer (eighth child), bora March 8, 1820, 
married, in 1842, Elmira Wilder, of Cambridge, Vt, 
where he died in 1843. 

Caroline (ninth child of William P. and Laura L.), 
born Jan. 21, 1822, married Edward Converse, May 23, 
1848, resided at Butternuts, N. Y., and for many years was 
a teacher. 

Minerva, born April 4, 1824, died March 31, 1839. 

Laura E., born Nov. 10, 1826, died March 24, 1839. 

Joseph L., bom April 17, 1828, died March 28, 1839. 
These three last named children of William P. and Laura 
L. died during the same week at Cambridge, Vt., of scarlet 
fever. 

Burton, born Dec, 1830, died Nov., 1844. 

Simeon R. (fourteenth and last child), born March, 
1832, married Charlotte Dickinson, April 16, 1850, resides 
in Lexington, Minn., Avhere he was formerly a teacher. 

The other five children of Nathan and Phebe (Crocker) 
Richardson were: 

viii. HETTIE, born at Coventry, Nov. 6, 1762. 

ix. SARAH, born at Coventry, March 10, 1765. 

X. ELIZABETH, born at Coventry, Feb. 26, 1768. 

xi. WELLES, born at Coventry, Feb. 14, 1770. In 1793 he 
resided at Manchester, Vt., where he was a voter. 

xii. LOIS, bom at Lebanon, Oct. 13, 1772. 

2. LEMUEL, son of Amos and Rachel (Yarrington) Richard- 

son, born Sept. 19, 1726, married Anna Rust. 
See fifth generation for full account. 

3. AMOS, son of Amos and Rachel (Yarrington) Richardson, 

born at Coventry, March 5, 1728, married first 
Ruth Stiles, June 5, 1751, mother of all his chil- 
dren ; and second Phebe. The epitaphs on their 



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tombstones in the cemetery at Coventry, some- 
times called the Strong Cemetery, read as fol- 
lows : "In memory of Mrs. Ruth, consort of Capt. Amos Rich- 
ardson, Avho departed this life Feb. 4th, 1777, in the 44th year 
of her age." "In memory of Mrs. Phebe Richardson, who died 
July 12, 1802, aged 08 years. Wife of Capt. Amos Richard- 
sou." ''In memory of Capt. Amos Richardson, who died Sept. 
30th, 1802, in the 75th year of his age." 

He served in the French and Indian War in 1757, received 
a commission from the Assembly as Lieutenant in 1765 and 
Captain in 1767 ; in 1763 he was the Collector of Rates. He 
kept a hotel for many years, which was destroyed by fire April 
24, 1766, on which account he petitioned the Assembly to relieve 
him from taxes. He was one of the committee to secure relief 
for Boston and served as a Captain during the Revolutionary 
War. Ho had five children: 

i. AX:N'A RICHARDSOX, born March 26, 1752, married 
Capt. Xoah Grant, grandfather of President Grant. Her 
tombstone bears this inscription : "In memoiy of Mrs. 
Anna, wife of Mr. Xoah Grant, daughter of Capt. Amos & 
Mrs. Ruth Richardson, who died 1786 in ye 38th year of 
her age." There is a discrepancy of three years between 
the dates of her birth as given in the town records and on 
her tombstone, but mistakes of this kind are often found. 
Since Marshall's "Ancestry of General Grant" was 
published in 1869 it has been supposed that the first wife 
of his grandfather, Capt. Noah Grant, a Revolutionary 
soldier, was a widow Richardson -whose maiden name was 
Anna Buell. This mistake was undoubtedly made by 
General Grant's father, Jesse Root Grant, and may be ac- 
counted for by his near relationship to the Buell family. 
^Martha Huntington, widow of Noah Grant, Sr., married 
Peter Jiuell, a prominent man who died in 176U, leaving a 
number of children by her. Capt. Noah and Anna (Rich- 
ardson) Grant had two sons : 

(1) Solomon Grant, born at Coventry, about 1779, 
brought up there and well educated (by his grandfather 
Buell, according to Mr. Marshall). Whether he lived with 



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his grandfather Eichardson or with his father's relatives 
it is now impossible to say. About 1798 he is said to have 
gone to the West Indies as the overseer of a sugar planta- 
tion, and it is now claimed that he left descendants there. 
The accounts about him differ somewhat.* 



(2) Peter Grant, born at Coventry, I^ov. 4, 1781, 
after his mother's death Avent with his father to Pennsyl- 
vania, where the latter married Mrs. Eachel Miller Kelly 
and had seven other children : Susan A., bom Dec. 7, 1792 ; 
Jesse Root (father of General U. S. Grant), Jan. 23, 1794 ; 
Margaret M., Oct. 23, 1795 ; ISToah B., 'Nov., 1797 ; John 
K., June 2, 1799 ; Roswell M., Jan. 10, 1802, and Rachel 
M., Sept. 6, 1804. 

Peter Grant settled in Maysville, Ky., and there 
married Permelia Bean (or Bane), Nov. 12, 1807. He 
acquired a fortune as a tanner, salt manufacturer and mine 
owner ; but his family, who favored the Confederate cause, 
lost a large share of their property during the war. Chil- 
' dren, all born at Maysville: 

1. Clarice Grant, born Aug. 15, 1808, married James Hewitt. 

2. Lawson B. Grant, born July 1, 1810, married Martha G. M. F. 
Hudson. 

3. Solomon K. Grant, born July 14, 1812, married Elizabeth F. 
Thornton. 

4. Orville Root Grant, born April 23, 1815, married Marian M. 
McFarland. 

5. Peter Buell Grant, born May 13, 1817, married Elizabeth B. 
Hendley. 

6. Anna Richardson Grant, born March 10, 1819, married Morti- 
mer Oliver Hubbard Norton. 

7. Permelia Grant, born Jan. 19, 1822, married Dr. Volney Spald- 
ing of N. Y. City. 

8. Noah Grant, born April 1, 1824, married Eliza Colston Marshall. 

9. Susan A. Grant, born March 26, 1826, died 1827. 

10. Rachel M. Grant, born March 18, 1829, married Alfred Gray 
Morgan. 

ii. HEZEKIAH RICHARDSOIsT, bom Jan. 25, 1754, mar- 
ried Olive Thompson, Jan. 27, 1774, and died June 23, 
1814. His will mentions children — Amos, ISTancy Cole- 

*See Marshall's "Ancestry of General Grant," and "History of the 
Grant Family" by Arthur Hastings Grant. 



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man, Eiith, Phebe Eipley, Susan Lyman, and a grand- 
daughter, Olive Richardson. They appear to have had 
seven children, order of birth unknown. 

(1) Nancy Richardson, bom Aug. 6, 1774, married 
Solomon Coleman and had Nancy and Solomon Lathrop, 
bapt. July 1, 1828, and James Manning, Sept. 30, 1831. 

(2) Ruth Richardson, born Jan. 9, 1779, was un- 
married when her father's will was dated in 1813. 

(3) Hannah Richardson, born Oct. 13, 1780, married 
Capt. Joseph Dow and had Eunice, bapt, at Coventry, 
March 21, 1802, Rebecca, Jan. 16, 1803, Hannah, May 22, 

1804, Joseph, Oct. 6, 1805, Joseph and Newton, Oct. 8, 
1809, Hezekiah, Lucia and Augustus, Oct. 1, 1815, Ed- 
ward, June 1, 1817 (resided at Bunker Hill, HI.*), Eliza- 
beth, March 1, 1819, James Richardson, Jan. 21, 1821, 
and Mary, May 24, 1829. 

(4) Olive Richardson, bom in 1782, married Coh 
James AATiite and died Nov. 14, 1808, leaving a daughter, 
Olive Richardson, who was baptized the next day. 

(5) Phebe Richardson, date of birth imknown, mar- 
ried Elijah Ripley at Coventry, Nov. 14, 1804. On Aug. 
18, 1816, they had the following children baptized: Joseph, 
Amos, Polly, Frederick, Olive, Sally and Erastus. On 
Jan. 4, 1820, Emily and Norman, children of widow 
Elijah Ripley, were baptized. On Sept. 3, 1820, Elijah, 
son of widow Elijah Ripley, was baptized. Her husband 
died Jan. 1, 1820, age 37 years. 

(6) Susan Richardson, date of birth unknown, mar- 
ried William Lyman, Sept. 19, 1797, and had Jane Rich- 
ardson, baptized July 29, 1798, Miranda, Sept. 15, 1799, 
Alicia, Oct. 3, 1802, Idocia, Aug. 5, 1804, Mary, Nov. 3, 

1805, Lucy, Oct. 18, 1807, Nathan Morrison and Chaun- 
cey, March 15, 1811, and Julia Ann, Oct. 1, 1815. 

(7) Amos Richardson, born July 4, 1786, married 
Sarah Strong, Nov. 29, 1810. He resided in Coventry, 



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about a half-mile south of Mansfield Depot, where he died, 
March 13, 1860. He was a deacon in the First Church at 
South Coventry. He had ten children : 

1. Hezekiah, born Feb. 7, 1812, died 1833. 

2. Theodore Dwight, born Aug. 14, 1813, died 1817. 

3. Joseph Warren, born Aug. 14, 1815, resided in 1871 in Coven- 
try, unmarried. 

4. Charles, born July 23, 1817, resided in 1871 in Coventry, un- 
married. 

5. Lucy Strong, born Dec. 23, 1820, married in 1847, Andrew Jack- 
son Main, resided in Coventry, and had five children. 

6. Edward, born April 2, 1823, died unmarried in 1863. 

7. Ruth Stiles, born April 2, 1825, in 1871 resided in Coventry, un- 
married. 

8. Olive White, born June 18, 1827, married William Oliver Gar- 
dner, and had four children. 

9. James White, born July 2, 1830, married, 1858, Nancy Eliza 
Logan. He was a carpenter, resided in Hartford, and had five 
children. 

10. Amos, born June 20, 1832, married Sarah Brindall and had two 
children. 



iii. ZEBULOX EICHAEDSOX, born Feb. 10, 1757, died at 
Coventry, Feb. 15, 1809, aged 52 years, probably never 
married. 

iv. EEUBEX STILES EICHAEDSOX, born at Coventry, 
Feb., 1762. 

V. EUTH EICHAEDSOX, born about 1765, married Levi 
Swetland, Dec. 28, 1780, and died at Coventry, Jan. 11, 
1782, aged 76. Children: 

(1) Mille Swetland, born Nov. 28, 1782, married 
Capt. Joseph Eose, !N"ov. 28, 1799, and had Fanny, Sept. 
3, 1800 (died 1814), Elizabeth Hale, June 28, 1804, and 
Fanny Mary, Sept. 24, 1815. Capt. Eose died Aug. 1, 

1838. 

(2) Anne Swetland, born April 26, 1785, died 1808. 

(3) Polly Swetland, bom Jan. 17, 1787, died 1813. 

(4) Levi Swetland, born June 2, 1789, married 
Electa Kingsbuiy, March 8, 1810, and had Mary Anne 
and Olive White, baptized 1819, and Levi P., Henry K. 
and Harriet E., baptized in 1821. 

(5) Euth Swetland, bom March 30, 1791; and 



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(0) Rosea Swetland (daug-litor), Iwrn March 21, 



4, RACHEL, daiigliter of Amos and Rachel (Yarrington) 

Richardson, was born at Coventry, May 16, 1729, 
and married David Richardson, of Lebanon. 
See page 29. 

5. JOXATHAN", son of Amos and Rachel (Yarrington) 

Richardson, was born at Coventry, July 24, 
1721, and died there April 3, 1799. He was one 
of the soldiers who went to Boston at the Lexing- 
ton Alarm in 1775. His will, dated Nov. 13, 
1795, mentions wife Jerusha, children William, 
Ezekiel, Ephriam, Mason, Martin, Mary Fox, and ga:-and- 
danghter Eunice Fox. As far as can be learned he had nine 
children, order of birth unknown : 

i. WILLIAM, born perhaps about 1756, presumably the 
William Richardson who married Abigail Thayer, at Bol- 
ton, Sept. 24, 1778, was a Revolutionary soldier from 
Coventry. 

ii. EZEKIEL, bora in 1760 or 1761, served in the Revolu- 
tionary War from Coventry. He married Jerusha Porter, 
who died in 1824. The inscriptions on their tombstones in 
the cemetery at the foot of Silver Street, Coventry, read as 
follows : "In memory of Mr. Ezekiel Richardson, who died 
Nov. 8, 1816, in the 56th year of his age." "In memory 
of Mrs. Jerusha Richardson, relict of Mr. Ezekiel Richard- 
son, who died Aug. 14, 1824, aged 62 years." 

Her will, dated June 24, 1824, names children Ches- 
ter, Lathrop, Uriel, Jerusha, Chloe, and grand-daughter 
Harriet Maria Spofford. Children : 

(1) Chester Richardson, born about 1782, married 
Huldah Lyman and died at Coventry in 1856, aged 74. 
She died in 1855, aged 70; they had one son, name un- 
known. 

(2) Lathrop Richardson, born in 1789, baptized at 
Vernon on Oct. 18 of that year, married Mary Hatch, Jan. 



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4, 1819, and had Charles, who resides in South Dakota, 
Jane, Mary Ann (married Henry Tracy, a Boston editor), 
Lillcone (married Alpheus Fuller, of Scotland, Cc>nn.), 
and Emily L., who was baptized at Coventry in 1829 and 
resides at Lenox, Mass. 

(3) Jerusha Richardson, bapt. at Vernon, Aug. 6, 
1792, died Sept. 19, 1849, aged 45. She married Daniel 
Loomis, Jan. ,,1815, and had Edwin, Daniel, Juliatta, bapt. 
1819, and Mary Kingsbury, bapt. 1821. 

.^ (4) Chloe Richardson, bapt. July 10, 1796, married, 
Sept. 4, 1816, Jesse Spofford, of Mansfield, and had Mary- 
ette, 1817, Marilla, 1819, Manly W., 1821, Harriet Marie, 
1824, who married Dr. H. M. Preston, Uriel, 1826, Mon- 
roe D., 1831, Eliot G., 1837. 

(5) Uriel Richardson died Sept. 16, 1824, age 24 
years. This date is taken from the inscription on his tomb- 
stone in the cemetery at the foot of Silver Street, which 
reads as follows : "Uriel, son of Mr. Ezekiel & Mrs. Jeru- 
sha Richardson, died Sept. 16, 1824, in Bethsaida, Georgia, 
age 24 years." There was no village nor post office in 
Georgia named Bethsaida, but the Bethseda College and 
Orphan Home, founded by the celebrated George White- 
field about 1740, was located near Savannah and destroyed 
by fire soon after his death in 1770. In 1808 this prop- 
erty was sold to the Morrell family, and at the time of 
Uriel Richardson's death was a part of their plantation. 

In the centennial address of Rev. George A. Calhoun 
in 1845, Dr. Uriel Richardson is mentioned as a physician 
who was born in Coventry. Mrs. Harriet M. Preston, a 
niece of Uriel Richardson, furnished some years ago in- 
formation about the family, in which she spoke of him as 
a skillful physician who died (when about 45 years of age) 
at Milledgeville, Ga. 

The above accounts of Uriel Richardson do not agree 
if the date taken from his tombstone is reported correctly*, 
and the most that can be said is that he was probably a 



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promising young physician, who Aveut south perhaps for 
liis^ health and died there. 

iii. EPHKAIM EICHARDSOX, date of birth unknown, en- 
listed in the Eevolutionary service in 1778 for three years 
in a Company of Harness Makers, and was stationed at 
Springfield, Mass. He Avas named in his father's will, 
dated in 1795. 

iv. WEALTHY EICHARDSOX, date of birth unknown, 
died Dec. 8, 1767, in the fourth year of her age. 

V. MIXOR RICHARDSON, date of birth nnkncwn, died 
Aug. 14, 1779, in his 15th year. 

vi. WEALTHY RICHARDSOX, date of birth unknown, 
died Nov. 27, 1784, in her 17th year. Her record and 
the two preceding ones were taken from their tombstones. 

vii. I'lASON RICHARDSON, date of birth unknown, resided 
in Coventry and signed a deed there in 1801 with Martin, 
his brother, during the same year received a letter of 
transfer from the church at Cbventry. 

viii. MARY RICHARDSON, married a Mr. Fox and had a 
daughter Eunice. Presumably she was the widow Fox 
who died in Coventry in 1826, age 56 years, according to 
the record of the Second Church. 

ix. MARTIN RICHARDSON, born in 1773, was the 
youngest son, maiTied Lavinia Taylor, resided in Wind- 
ham and ran a line of stages between there and Hartford. 
His eight children w^ere (1) Lavinia Richardson, 
bom Dec. 8, 1797, married Joseph Delliber, of Hartford, 
and had two children : Joseph, born in 1821, married Caro- 
line Rust; Lavinia, second child, born Jan. 15, 1825, mar- 
ried Lorenzo Hamilton. Children : 

1. Lillie Lavinia, born March 4, 1853, married James W. Bldridge 
of Hartford. 

2. Frank Lorenzo, born Jan. 7, 1855, married Sarah Lavinia Lines, 
resides at Meridan and has Maud Lines Hamilton, born Nov. 3, 
1886, and Lorenzo Hamilton, born June 24, 1895. 

3. Joseph D., date of birth unknown. 

.* 4. Ida Louise, born Jan. 28, 1859, married Dr. Franklin P. Roberts 
of New Haven and had Hazel Lavinia, born Sept. 5, 1883, and 
Frank Hamilton, born Oct. 12, 1885. 



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(2). Ley don Richardson, born in 1800, married first 
Eliza Emeline, and second Mary Charlotte Lyman, leaving 
a son Henry by his first wife. 

(3) Jonathan Dwight Richardson, born 1807, mar- 
ried Martha Way and had a daughter Elizabeth, who mar- 
ried Arad Tuttle. 

(1:) Cynthia Ann Richardson, born 1810, died 1828. 

(5) Julia Ann Richardson, born in 1812, died in 
1829. 

(6) Wealthy Richardson, born 1814, married Wil- 
liam Palmer. 

(7) William Hart Richardson, born in 1816, married 
Lucy Stillman. 

(8) Laura Richardson, born in 1819, died in 1834. 

6. STEPHEI^, son of Amos and Rachel (Yarrington) Rich- 
ardson, born July 14, 1732, married Mabel 
Marsh at Coventry, Feb. 22, 1763, and was one 
of the soldiers who went to Boston at the Lexing- 
ton Alarm in 1775. After the war he resided in 
Windsor, where he died Oct. 7, 1809, his wife 
Aug. 4, 1798. They had nine children : 

i. JAXE RICHARDSO^T^ born at Coventry, Dec. 24, 1763, 
married Elijah Wright, Jr., Nov. 1, 1781. They were 
buried in the cemetery near the foot of Silver Street, which 
is situated a little we&t of the site of his old mill, now in 
ruins. The locality is known to this day as ''Wright's 
Mill." He was a descendant of Deacon Samuel Wright, 
of Springfield, and a cousin of Jesse, grandfather of the 
Rev. Merle St. O. Wright, of New York. The epitaphs on 
their tombstones are: ''Elijah Wright, died Feb. 28, 1839, 
aged 80 years. Jane, relict of Elijah Wright, died Sept. 
27, 1850, aged 86 years." Children: 

(1) John Wright, born Feb. 2, 1787, resided at or 
near Detroit, Mich., served in the War of 1812, and died 



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Aug. 15, 1812. One account is that lie was killed in the 
service. 

(2) James Wright, born June 10th, died July IT 
1789. '^ ' 

(3) James Wright, born July 12, 1793, settled at 
Eootstown, Ohio, had three daughters and two sons, and 
died at Franklin Mills, Ohio, July 13, 1863. 

(4) Emily Wright, born July 25, 17i)5, married 
Uriah Brigham, April, 1825, and died in March, 1826. 

(5) Harvey Wright, born July 17, 1797, married 
Sarah Bissell, of Manchester, in 1820, names of their chil- 
dren unknown. 

ii. JEXXET JEWETT EICHARDSOX, born l^ov. 1, 
1765, died Sept. 28, 1793 (perhaps a widow). 

iii. LUCRETIA RICHARDSOX, born Feb. 11, 1768. 

iv. ABIGAIL RICHARDSON, born Marcii 9, 1770, married 
William Kingsbury at Coventry, 1788, moved to Homer, 
]^. Y., where he was a tanner and shoemaker.* Their five 
children were : 

(1) Eleazer, born Xov. 25, 1788, married Susan 
Kinnee and had f(mr children : Andrew E., born June 28, 
1820, married, 1847, Cynthia Edgerton, of Coventry; An- 
toinette, born Aug. 24, 1823, married, 1850, Denman 
Spencer, resided at Binghamton, ]^. Y., and had one 
daughter, Harriet, born May 3, 1828 ; Sarah, born Sept. 4, 
1830. 

(2) William Kingsbury, born Aug. 27, 1790, married 
Hilpah Winchell in 1817, died Sept. 1, 1867, at Homer, 
where his three children were born : Harriet, died young ; 
Augustus W., born Nov. 30, 1824, married Mary Fish, had 
two children, and died in Minnesota in 1866; Henry Clay, 
born Xov. 6, 1830, married Mercy Ann LaDue, resided in 
Westfield, X. Y., where he was a prominent lawyer and 

*See "Kingsbury Genealogy" for full account. 



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died in 1902. (Children: Carlton A., Edward P., Clara 
LaDue, Jnlia H. and Henry Clay.) 

(3) Erastus, born Dec. 23, 1792, died Sept. 22, 1810. 

(4) Augnstns, born Oct. 12, 1796, married Dec, 
1816, Polly Loomis, and died Oct. 26, 1872. Children: 
Mary, born Eeb. 2, 1817; Harriet, born June 19, 1819, 
married Wells Woodbridge, of Manchester, Conn. ; Eras- 
tus, born May 8, 1821, married Elizabeth Goodwin. 

(5) Charles, born March 20, 1802, married Nov. 26, 
1829, Pamelia Porter; resided in Cortland Village, IST. Y. 
Children: Emily M., born Feb. 14, 1832, died Oct. 7, 
1852 ; Charles P., born July 8, 1833, married Cleoria Ben- 
nett; Andrew D wight, born ]^ov. 18, 1834, married Emily 
Haw^kes; Albert G., born Feb. 14, 1841, married Fanny 
Cleine, resided in Des Moines, Iowa; Edwin S., born Sept. 
26, 1842, died March 13, 1874; Frederick W., born July 
22, 1850, married Sept. 27, 1876, Mary Schemerhorn. 

V. ALEXANDER RICHARDSON, born June 17, 1772. 

vi. PHILLIP RICHARDSON, born Sept. 7, 1774, drowned 
May 13, 1793. 

vii. MABEL RICHARDSON, born March 8, 1778. 

viii. DANIEL RICHARDSON, born Jan. 8, 1781. 

ix. POLLY RICHARDSON, born Oct. 12, 1785. 

7. ANN, daughter of Amos 'and Rachel (Yarrington) Rich- 
ardson, born Jan. 4, 1734, married Uriah Brig- 
ham, May 28, 1754, and died Aug. 5, 1813. 
Her husband died in Jan., 1777, aged 55. Their 
eight children were : 

i. ROGER, born Oct. 28, 1755, died in Nov., 1760. 

ii. BETHIAH, born July 14, 1757. 

iii. ANNE, born Oct. 14, 1759, married Samuel Rudd, of 
Norwich, Feb. 19, 1783. 

iv. NORMxiN, born Dec. 2, 1761, died Aug., 1782. 



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V. DOX CARLOS, born Feb. 21, 1763, married Polly Green- 
leaf, June 7, 1789,. and died March 27, 1843. A son aged 
two years died Jan. 20, 1804, and another, Gurdon, aged 
12, died Jnne 11, 1804. Don Carlos Brighani was a 
Revolutionary pensioner in 1832, and resided in Hartford 
Co. 

vi. CEPHAS, born Dec. 7, 1765, married Amelia Robertson, 
May 14, 1786, died May 17, 1841. Children: 

(1) Anne, born probably about 1787, bapt. May 17, 
1793, married Roderick Dimock, of Mansfield, Oct. 9, 
1806. 

(2) Lucia, date of birth unknown, bapt. May 17, 
1793, married Horace Russ, Nov. 29, 1810, who died 
before Aug. 29, 1826, on which date the following children 
of his widow were baptized at Mansfield : Horace Dwight, 
Lucia Emily, Isabel, Amelia, Lewis and Louisa. 

(3) Sally, bapt. with her sisters May, 1793. 

vii. MAROIxi or MARTHA, born Jan. 28, 1770, bapt. July, 

1778. 

viii. LUCIA, born Is'ov. 6, 1771, bapt. July, 1778, married Dr. 
Rice, of Glastonbury, Aug. 31, 1800. 

8. ZEBLTLOK^, son of Amos and Rachel (Yarrington) Rich- 

ardson, was born March 7, 1735. ISTothing more 
is known of him. Two of his brothers' sons were 
' named for him, and, as there is no record of his 

death at Coventry, it is not improbable that he 
lost his life in the Revolution. 

9. HUMPHREY, son of Amos and Rachel (Yarrington) 

Richardson, born March 9, 1737, was named for 
his father's half-brother, Humphrey Davenport. 
His father's will contains this provision : "I give 
and bequeath unto Humphrey my grandson, & 
son of my son Humphrey deceased what will re- 
main out of Six & twenty pounds after deduction therefrom, — 
to pay a Legacy of £50 old tenor willed to my sd. son Hum- 



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pbrev bj his Uncle Humphrey Davenport of Ooventiy de- 
ceased." 

He married Marj Brown, probably daughter of Ebenezer 
and Martha Brown, of Coventry, who was born April 26, 1741. 
He served as a soldier and was killed in a battle with the Indians 
at Hoosick Falls, is^. Y., in the latter part of 1756. 

One of his descendants, Mrs. A. F. Hill, of West Brattle- 
boro, has a letter, written by him while in camp, to his father, 
mother and wife, dated May 17, 1756. His only child, born 
after his death, was 

i. HUMPHEEY EICHAEDSO^T^ born Feb. 6, 1757. He 
served in the Continental Army, was taken prisoner, and, 
when paroled, his residence was given as Coventry. In 
April, 1777, he enlisted again for three years in Capt. 
Jonathan Allen's Cb., Col. Putnam's Eeg., from North- 
ampton, Mass. He married Margaret Webb, July 17, 
1781, and on March 27, 1782, his infant child died at 
Bolton, Conn. On N^ov. 30, 1783, Humphrey Eichardson 
and wife were admitted to the church at Bolton. He 
moved to Williamstown, Mass., from there to Dors-.t^ Vt., 
and died at North Bennington, Vt, in 1846. 

In 1837 he petitioned Congress for an appropriation 
of $35.25 and interest to pay for property lost by him dur- 
ing the Eevolutionary War. This request was not granted, 
although Ililand Hall, Eepresentative from his district, 
certified that he was a man of "undoubted veracity." His 
petition in part was as follows : 

"Your petitioner Humphrey Richardson, of Dorset in the 
county of Bennington and State of Vermont, a pensioner under 
the act of 1818, respectfully represent that in the month of March, 
1776, he was a soldier in Col. Porter's regiment in the Massachu- 
setts line, that he had furnished himself at his own expense with 
arms, clothing, and equipments, that on his way to Canada in 
crossing Lake Champlain, he, without any fault on his part 
slipped on the ice and broke the stock of his gun, which rendered 
it entirely useless, and there being no means of repairing it, it 
was left at St. Johns and lost to your petitioner, that the said gun 
cost him ten dollars in specie, that in August of the same year 
your petitioner was taken prisoner near the Isle La Motte in Lake 
Champlain, carried to Quebec and from thence to New York where 
he was paroled and returned home in the fall of the same year. 

"Your petitioner further states that on being taken prisoner 



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he was stripped of all his clothing except that which he wore, and 
also of his arms and equipments, and that his losses in arms, 
equipments, and clothing are truly and justly stated in the fol- 
lowing bill." 

The five children of lluiiiphrey and Margaret (Webb) 
Itichardson were: 

(1) Humphrey Richardson, born at Bolton, Conn.^ 
Feb. 8, 1774, married Hannah Durgee, Aug., 1805, had 
sixteen children, only five accounted for, the others prob- 
ably having died young : 

1. Humphrey Davenport, married Mary Webb of Sunderland, Vt., 
and had Webb, Humphrey Davenport, and Adeline. 

2. Margaret Helen, born in Dorset, Jan. 1, 1824, married Andrew 
Edward Richardson, in 1840, at Salem, N. Y., and died Nov. 8, 
1862. He was born Aug. 8, 1813, and was the son of John 
Clauson and Lucretia (Root), as before mentioned. They had 
two children: Josephine Amelia, born Aug. 30, 1842, married 
Alexander F. Hill, July 15, 1862, resides at West Brattleboro, 
Vt., and has two daughters, Margaret Helen and Ruth Adeline, 
wife of Charles D. Pettee; Humphrey Edward Eugene, born 
Dec. 4, 1843, moved to Colorado about 1893. 

3. Marion, born Feb. 19. 1826, married Samuel E. Moore, Nov. 15, 
1855, and had Frank Ernest, Oct. 23, 1856, Lillian Emogene, June 
23, 1858, Ralph Edward, July 7, 1865, and Hubert Samuel, Feb. 
19, 1867. The second child, Lillian E., is the only one living; 
she married Major Frank L. Howe, at Dorset, Sept. 22, 1881, 
resides at Northfield, Vt., and has Harold Moore, born July 14, 
1882, and Muriel Lillian, Oct. 16, 1884. The latter married 
Earl L. Bean, June 29, 1904. 

4. Mary, married George Pettibone and has George R., who re- 
sides at Yonkers, N. Y. 

5. Anne, married Benjamin Albe. 

(2) Hiram Richardson, born Jan. 25, 178G, had two 
sons, Eli and Edwin, who resided at North Bennington. 

(3) George Washington Richardson, born Dec. 27^ 
1789, according to family tradition, died unmarried at 
Memphis, Tenn., in 1846. He was born with only one 
hand, was educated at Williams College, but did not grad- 
uate. He was for many years a teacher, but became a 
physician. Mrs. A. F. Hill has a good letter written by 
him Dec. 15, 1828, at which time he was teaching at River- 
head, Conn., and was in poor health. Mr. A. M. Jones 
also has eleven family letters from him, the first dated at 



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l^ew York, Sept. 10, 1810, the last at Birch Pond, Tenn., 
1843. He had an exemplary Christian character. 

(4) Margaret Richardson, born in Williamstown, 
Mass., July 22, 1796, married Xorris Dodge and had seven 
children : 

1. William, drowned when about two years of age. 

2. Mary H., born Oct. 25, 1820, married William G. Baker, died in 
Scottsville, N. Y., June 18, 1901, leaving a daughter Margaret E., 
who married LeGrand Brown. 

3. Marcia Richardson, married Elijah Sherwin and died in Iowa 
without issue. 

4. Jane N., married Edwin Haswell, moved to California, where 
she died in 1862. Her sons, Alfred Z. and George E., reside in 
Madison, Wis. 

5. Margaret Helen and 

6. Marrett J. died in infancy. 

7. Eva P., boi-n April 9, 1835, married Fred H. Cooledge, March 
23, 1859, resides at Dorset and had two children: Mary J., born 
Dec. 25, 1867, died Sept. 29, 1881; William Dodge, second child, 
born Aug. 23, 1861, married Frances Harrington and died Sept. 
18, 1891, leaving a daughter Mary Ella (wife of Ralph Walker) 
and a son, George Baker. 

(5) Marcia Richardson, born July 31, 1803, married 
Amos Allen Jones in 1828, resided many years at jSTorth 
Bennington, and died at Schaghticoke, JST. Y,, Jmie 28, 
1883. Children: 

1. Myron Allen Jones, born Feb. 6, 1835, married Mary C. Barton 
in 1868, had Helen M., Myra, Helen B., and died at Schaghti- 
coke April 30, 1883. 

2. Myra Jones died in infancy. 

3. Albert Melvin Jones, born Sept. 10, 1840, manned Freelove E. 
Allen Feb. 13, 1866, resides at Hoosick Falls, N. Y., and has 
six children: Amos Melvin, born July 2, 1869, married Cora A. 
Reynolds Oct. 17, 1894, and has William Reynolds, born Oct. 
26, 1901; Oliver Arnold, second child, born April 9, 1872, mar- 
ried Emma Oldenberg Aug. 30, 1899, resides at Westfield, N. Y., 
and has Olive R., born June 16, 1900, and Albert F., May 12, 
1902; Ralph Allen, third child, born March 21, 1875, married 
Maud L. Easton Sept. 20, 1899, and resides at North Bennington, 
Vt. The other children of Albert M. and Freelove E. (Allen) 
Jones are Marcia E., born April '18, 1879, Myra H., July 18, 1885, 
and Myron H., Aug. 3, 1888. 

10. ABIGAIL, daughter of Amos and Rachel (Yarrington) 
Richardson, born July 23, 1739. There is no 
further account of her. 



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11. LOIS, daughter of Amos and Kacliel (Yarrington) Kich- 
ardson, born July 18, 1741, married Jonathan 
Porter, Jr.,* Xov, 15, 1759. He went to Bos- 
ton at the Lexing-ton ahirm. Her gravestone 
in the cemetery near the foot of Silver Street 
is marked ''Lois Porter, wife of Jonathan Por- 
ter, Jr., died April 14, 1766, in the 25th year of her age." 
Their seven children were: 

i. LOIS, born April 14, 1759, married Lieut. Joseph Kings- 
bury, Feb. 21, 1780, and by him had eleven chilldren : 

(1) Lois Kingsbury, born Jan. 14, 1781, married, 
Xov. 3, 1805, Ira Lillie and died without issue. 

(2) Oliver Kingsbury, born June 24, 1782, married, 
April 28, 1803, Cynthia Wing and had Maria May 12, 
1806 (maiTied Dr. Alonzo Streeter) and Oliver R., 
March 15, 1809 (married Susan Paterson). 

(3) Eunice Backus Kingsbury, born jSTov. 17, 1784, 
married, Xov., 1802, Ebenezer Porter and had four chil- 
dren : Sophronia, born Sept. 26, 1803, married Daniel 
Wight; their son Edwin Mather, born Oct. 31, 1836, 
graduated at Williams College and is a lawyer in !New 
York; Rosanna, born April 12, 1806; Monroe H., born 
Aug., 1812, died Sept. 5, 1818; Alva, born April, 1814, 
married John 0. Mather. 

(4) W^ard Kingsbury, born Jan. 10, 1787, married, 
Feb. 2, 1808, Irene Avery and had three children ; ]x)uisa, 
born July 24, 1811, married Ebenezer Parsons; Dinah, 
bom Jan. 22, 1813, married Matthew Allyn of Wellings- 
ton, Ohio; Ebenezer, born July 16, 1821, married Cle- 
mena Hitchcock. 

(5) Persis Kingsbury, born Dec. 10, 1789, married, 
May 2, 1813, Ira Lillie (her sister was his first wife). 

*See "Porter Family" for a full account of their descendants. Col. 
Porter, however, fell into the error of calling the wife of Jonathan 
Porter, Louis Richard, and the "Kingsbury Genealogy" makes the same 
mistake. 

Both are excellent family histories, with full accounts of the de- 
scendants in the Porter and Kingsbury lines. 



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Children: Marcus, born March 3, 1814; Elizabeth, Nov. 
26, 1817, and Jannette, May 31, 1821. 

(6) Electa Kingsbury, born June 9, 1791, married, 
March 8, 1810, Levi Swetland. *Children: Mary Ann 
born July 18, 1811, married George IST. Loomis; Oliver 
W., born June 12, 1817, died unmarried; Henry Kirke 
Wight, born May 28, 1821, married Lizzie Mann, was 
a fine musician and composer and died June 19, 1852 ; 
Harriet Elizabeth, born Eeb. 24, 1824, married George 
Pomeroy; Levi Parsons, born April 25, 1827, died July 
13, 1854. 

(7) Mary Kingsbury, born Oct. 3, 1793, married, 
May, 1813, Harlan Page. He was a man of strong re- 
ligious convictions and had a great influence on the 
religious life of Coventry. He was the manager of the 
American Tract Society of New York until his death 
(Sept. 23, 1834, aged 43). His ''Memoirs" were printed 
by the Society in 1835. They had four children: Erwin 
Page, born Aug. 11, 1815, in Coventry, graduated at 
Marietta Cbllege, 1841, at Lane Theological Seminary 
1844, and died unmarried Aug. 8, 1865. 

Electa Maria Page, second child of Harlan and Mary 
(Kingsbury), bom Oct. 22, 1817, married, July 18, 1843, 
Rev. John Lewis of Platteville, Wis. 

Cyrus Page, third child of Harlan and Mary (Kings- 
bury), bom May 15, 1822, married, March, 1843, So- 
phronia Davenport, and died the following month. 

Harlan Marius Page, fourth child, born Jan. 1, 1833, 
in New York, graduated at Beloit College about 1856, 
married Sarah E. Turner, was an editorial writer on the 
Wisconsin State Journal, and died June 15, 1886, leaving 
a widow and two children : Josie Electa and Harlan 
Kingsbury. Mrs. Page and her daughter were talented 
musicians. She was the prima donna of the Ole Bull 
Concert Troupe. Of the daughter the Iowa State Regis- 
ter says: ''The wonderful child artiste, Mdlle. Josie 



♦This account of their children from the "Kingsbury Genealogy" 
and that given on page 43 from Dimnock's "Coventry" do not agree. 



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Page, is a little jewel, has a remarkable voice, which she 
uses with great ease, singing the most difficult music with 
a thoroughly clear enunciation." 

(8) Roxana Kingsbury, bom Aug. 5, 1796, married, 
Sept. 20, 1815, Daniel Wight and had five children. Their 
third child, William Ward Wight, born Feb. 4, 1821, 
married, July 10, 1844, Lydia Ann Potwin Van Akin, 
died April 20, 1868, and left four children: Daniel 
Porter, born Aug. 16, 1846 ; William Ward, born in Troy, 
X. Y., Jan. 14, 1849, married, June 29, 1876, Sarah 
Emily West, resides at Milwaukee, is President of the 
Wisconsin Historical Society, and has w'ritten a genealogy 
of the Wight family; Clara Elizabeth, born Oct. 9, 1852, 
is a teacher and resides in Troy; Arthur Merriam, born 
April 20, 1860. 

Joseph Kingsbury Wight, fourth child of Daniel and 
Roxana, born Feb. 9, 1824, married, Aug. 16, 1848, Eliza- 
beth ]Sr. Van Dyke, graduated at Williams College and at 
Princeton Theological Seminary and was a missionary 
to China. They had seventeen children. 

(9) Ruth Kingsbury, born April 24, 1798, married 
Simon Tracy, a merchant, and had Addison Leander, born 
Oct. 25, 1819, in Lebanon; Lois Abby, born July 21, 1821, 
and Simon Kingsbury, born Oct. 23, 1831, in Xorwich. 

REV. ADDISON KINGSBURY, D.D. 

(10) Addison Kingsbury, son of Joseph and Lois, 
born July 5, 1800, in Coventry, married first, April 27, 
1830, Emma Little and second Mary Earrar Price, Aug. 
20, 1832. He was formerly a shoemaker, but after his 
religious conversion he determined to become a preacher 
of the Gospel. He was fitted for college under the private 
instruction of Rev. George A. Oalhoun of Coventry, en- 
tered Amherst College, 1823, but was compelled by serious 
sickness to leave after the first year, and taught at Nor- 
wich Falls, Conn. ; he studied at Andover Theological 
Seminary, 1825-1828, was licensed by the Andover As- 
sociation April 22, 1828, ordained as an evangelist by the 



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Presbvteiy of :N'e\vbiirypoi-t September 25, 1828, and went 
to Ohio, 

His route was from N"ew York City by boat to Al- 
bany, by canal from Schenectady to Utica, stage to Buf- 
falo, steamer to Dunlvirk, stage via Conneaut, Ohio, to 
^^lleeling, W. Va., thence to Marietta, Ohio, where he 
landed October 28, 1828. He labored for one year as home 
missionary in Washington County, Ohio, under com- 
mission from the American Home Missionary Society. 

In autumn of 1829 he was installed pastor of the 
united churches of Belpre and Warren, Ohio, After ten 
years' labor he was called to the Presbyterian Church of 
Putnam, Ohio, now a ward of Zanesville, serving till April, 
1878, when he resigned, having completed a half century 
of ministerial service. The presbytery, at the request of 
the Church, honored him as "pastor emeritus;" he resided 
at Marietta until his death, Jan. 25, 1892 (aged 92), 

He was a member of the I^ew England Historic- 
Genealogical Society, a trustee for thirty-eight years of 
the Putnam Female Seminary, for thil'ty-one years of 
Lane Theological Seminary, and for fifty-three years of 
Marietta College. The last-named institution conferred 
upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1854. He 
was from the church at Coventry in which Harlan Page 
was reared, and drank largely of the spirit of that devoted 
man. 

Dr. H. M. Field says of him in the 'New York Evan- 
gelist: "He was probably the oldest, and, up to recent 
years, almost the best known of our ministers west of the 
Ohio. He was among the most zealous and efficient of 
those pioneers of the Church who began their ministry 
at the front, when Ohio was yet largely a wildeiiiess." 

He had three sons, the youngest of whom died young. 
The eldest, Harlan Page, bom Aug. 12, 1836, married 
Mary Ellen Haver. 

Joseph Addison, the second son, born Sept. 28, 1840, 
graduated at Marietta College 1861, married Sarah Eliza- 
beth Shipman and resides in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he 
is a railroad official. He is the author of the Kingsbury 



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Genealogy (from material gathered by his father.) Most 
of the record here given of the Kingsbury line is gleaned 
from this excellent family history. Ho had three daugh- 
ters and one son, Samuel Shipman Kingsbury, born Sept. 
12, 1871, who is professor of Greek and German in Fair- 
mont College, Wichita, Kansas. 

(11) Emeline Kingsbury, daughter of Joseph and 
Lois, bora March 2, 1803, man-ied, Sept. 18, 1826, Alvin 
Kingsbury. He was a merchant and manufacturer and 
had five children : 

1. Martha Roxana, born Aug. 20, 1828, married Charles A. Kings- 
bury. 

2. Joseph, born Oct. 31, 1830, died Aug. 31, 1853. 

3. Ruth M., born Nov. 8, 1832, married Hon. Marcus Lillie. 

4. Addison, born Nov. 15, 1835, married first Charlotte Elizabeth 
Lillie, second Sarah M. Scott, third Mrs. Ida May (Warner) 
Robertson. 

5. Andrew Backus, born Nov. 15, 1837, died Aug. 20, 1841. 

The other children of Jonathan and Lois (Richard- 
son) Porter were: 

ii. MERCY, born May 22, 1760, married Capt. Samuel Rob- 
inson, and had I^eal, June 16, 1784, and Sarah Anne, Oct. 
17, 1786. 

iii. RACHEL, born May 28, 1761, married Samuel White. 

iv. PERCIS, born July 10, 1762, married Dr. Daniel Avery 
and died April 1, 1831. He died Sept. 27, 1811, aged 80. 

V. AMAZIAH, born Dec. 2, 1763, married Kittridge. 

vi. IRENE, born March 6, 1765, married Jabez Rockwell and 
had thirteen children. 

vii. JONATHAN, born April 5, 1766, married Tirzah Car- 
penter. 

12. JUSTUS, son of Amos and Rachel (Yarrington) Rich- 
ardson, born Sept. 30, 1743, married Submit 
Troop, Nov. 16, 1769, and died Aug. 28, 1813 
(according to his gravestone at C^Dventry). 
Children : 



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i. JAMES, born Nov. 17, 1770, died July 6, 1790. 

ii. SUBMIT, born about January, 1772, died Aug. 28, 1782, 
aged 11 years. 

iii. IKEXE, born Dec. 8, 1772. 

iv. RUSSELL, born Nov. 16, 1774. 

13. EUNICE, daughter of Amos and Rachel (Yarrington) 

Richardson, born Aug. 7, 1746, married Elam 
Jewett at Coventry May 19, 1768. Children: 

i. JEMIMA, born July 6, 1769. 

ii. ELAM, born Nov. 19, 1770. 

iii. JARED, born Jan. 26, 1771 ( ?). 

iv. JEREMIAH, born Dec. 7, 1773. 

V. OTHNIAL, born April 1, 1775. 

14. ABIAL, daughter of Amos and Rachel (Yarrington) 

Richardson, born March 18, 1749, married Dr. 
Henry Ladd, Jr., June 26, 1766; he died Aug., 
1778.' Children: 

i. JERUSHA, born Feb. 15, died Aug. 11, 1767. 

ii. HENRY, born Aug. 8, 1768, bapt. July, 1778. 

iii. HERMAN, born Feb. 6, 1770, bapt. July, 1778. 

iv. JERUSHA, born April 11, 1772, died Feb. 21, 1776. 

V. PEREGRINE, born Jan. 1, 1774- bapt. July, 1778. 

vi. LORIN, born June 8, 1775, died Deo. 10, 1777. 

vii. HIRAM, born Oct. 16, 1776, bapt. July, 1778. 

viii. BENONI, born July 24, 1778, bapt. July, 1778. 



FIFTH GENERA.TION. 

LEMUEL RICHA^RDSON. 



LEMUEL RICIIAIIDSOX, son of Amos and Rachel 
(Yarrington), born in Coventry Sept. 19, 1726 
niai-ried Anna, danghter of Oapt. Samnel and Sarah 
(Hawkins) Enst* of Coventry, Aug. 30, 1747, and 
had fifteen children, all recorded at Coventry. Eoswell Ricli- 
ardson, his grandson, was told by his father that there were 
fifteen children, althongh he never heard of but seven men 
and two women, which makes it probable that the others died 
voung. 

He resided in the northwest corner of the tow'n, on the 
road leading from Coventry to Rockville, about a quarter-mile 
south of the Tolland town line. 

His father gave him this farm in 1754. The deed reads 
in part as follows: 

"To all people to whom these presents shall come greeting. Know 
Ye that I, Amos Richardson of Coventry in the County of Windham 
and Colony of Connecticut in New England for and in cosideration 
of ye love and affection that I bear unto my son, Lemuel Richardson 
of ye Town of County and Colony above, have given, granted, and do 
for and by these presents given and grant unto my 2d son. Lemuel 
and to his heirs and assigns forever two certain pieces of land lying 
in the Township of Coventry." 

His farm contained about fifty-six acres and was first oc- 
cupied by K^oali Skinner; subsequently, in 1838, it was pur- 
chased by Daniel Usher. 

Lemuel Richardson died in 1777, and was buried in the 
cemetery at the foot of Silver Street, about a half mile west of 
Wright's mill. A tombstone marks his last resting place on 
which is this inscription : ''In memory of Mr. Lemuel Rich- 
ardson who died A])ril ye 22, 1777, in ye 51 year of his age." 
The inventory of his estate shows that his wiie survived him; 
it is not known when she died. 

■- *For Rust Family see Appendix D. 

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There is no account of his serving in the Revolution, 
although he may have done so, and his last illness may have 
been caused from exposure in the service. The doctor's bills, 
as shown by the inventory, would indicate that he was ill for 
some time. It is well known that the Revolutionary records 
contain the names of only a part of the men who were in the 
service. This is proved by the petitions for pensions of many 
of the Revolutionary soldiers. His family, however, were well 
represented in the service, for it is known that at least four of 
his brothers, four of his sons, two sons-in-law, and four of his 
brother's sons were in the war. Their fifteen children were : 

1. MERCY, or MARY, daughter of Lemuel and Anna 

(Rust) Richardson, was bom at Coventry Jan. 
T, 1748. There is no further account of her, 
and she probably died young. 

2. SAMUEL, son of Lemuel and Anna (Rust) Richardson, 

was born March 25, 1749. In 1814 he was 
residing near Lake George, and during that 
year visited his sister, Mrs. Collins, at Manches- 
ter, Vt., where Roswell and his father met him. 
It is known that he had been a Revolutionary 
soldier and he may have been the Samuel Richardson who was 
at Ticonderoga in 1772. There was a Sergeant Samuel Rich- 
ardson in the Continental Army from Stafford, Conn., where 
some of his family resided. It is not known that he was ever 
married, 

3. :N'ATIIA:N'IEL, son of Lemuel and Anna (Rust) Richard- 

son, bom April 5, 1750, served in the Revolu- 
tion from Coventry and was one of the soldiers 
who went to Boston at the Lexington alarm. The 
name of his wife is unknown. He had a daugh- 
ter Pauline, bom in C'oventry Oct. 24, 1783. 
According to the recollection of Roswell Richardson he moved 
after that to West Stafford, where he resided until his death 
about 1828. He was a shoemaker by trade and had four chil- 
dren, two sons and two daughters. The eldest daughter, prob- 



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ably Pauline, died at her uncle Lemuel's some years before 
Roswell left home. The sons were shoemakers and resided 
in Berlin, Conn. ; their names are unknown. 

4. ZEBULON", son of Lemuel and Anna (Rust) Richardson, 

born July 31, 1751, served as a Major in the 

Revolution. After the war he resided in Berlin, 

Conn., where he was a blacksmith; he made the 

first scvthe that Roswell Richardson ever used. 

The family name of his wife Lois is unknown. 

The following- are the epitaphs on their tombstones at Berlin: 

"Major Zebulon Richardson died June 25, 1809, aged 58." 

"Lois, relict of Major Zebulon Richardson, died March 10^ 

1812, aged 57." He had two daughters: 

i. LIULDA, born about 1779, married first Seth Beckley, 
second, Dec. 2, 1806, Ammi R. Doming of Southington, 
Conn., and died May 25, 1847, aged e>S. She had one 
daughter, who was living in 1827. 

ii. HARRIET, born about 1781, united with the Second 
Congregational Church at Berlin in 1813, and died there 
Sept. 4, 1822, aged 41, presumably unmarried. 

5. LEML'^EL, son of Lemuel and Anna (Rust) Richardson, 

born at Coventry Dec. 13, 1752, married Rachel 
Lothrop of Tolland, June 2, 1774. He was a 
saddler by trade. After the birth of one child 
at Coventry, he removed to Tolland, where prob- 
ably all of his other children were born. He 

died at Waitsfield', Vt., Sept. 26, 1826, and his wife in Tolland, 

April 27, 1811. His eleven children were: 

i. LOTHROP, born Dec. 10, 1774, died March 16, 1789. 

ii. ACHSAH, bom Aug. 27, 1775, married Erastus A. Abbot 
of Rutland, Yt., and died March 5, 1820. 

:ii. RODERICK, born Eeb. 15, 1779, married Anna Davis 
of Stafford, daughter of Noah Davis, the grandfather of 
Judge Noah Davis of New York. He settled in Waits- 
field, Yt, where he died in 1844. He was a prominent 



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business man and Judge of the County Cburt. His four 
children were : 

(1) Sophia Richardson, born about 1802, died un- 
married at Waitsfield, Vt. 

(2) Dan Richardson, bom Nov., 1804, married first, 
Betsey Jones, second, Lucy Carpenter, and died in 1865. 

HON. RODERICK RICHARDSON. 

(3) Roderick, born Aug. 7, 1807, married, Feb. 28, 
1839, Harriet Emeline Taylor and died in Boston Dec. 13, 
1882. A full account of him and his family, with his 
portrait, is given in the "Richardson Memorial." It is re- 
gretted that more space cannot be given here for an ac- 
count of his life. He was in the banking business at Mont- 
pelier, Yt., and for nine years at Freeport, 111., served as 
a Judge in Washington Co., Vt., and for nine years in the 
Legislature as Re^jresentative and as Senator. 

After moving to Boston, in 1869, he was president 
for a few years of the Montpelier and Wells River Rail- 
road. He was a prominent member of the Episcopal 
Church. He took a great interest in his family history, 
and the data, given in the ''Richardson Memorial," of 
Amos Richardson's descendents in Connecticut was ob- 
tained by him at Coventry and at Stonington. His four 
children were Roderick Julius, Louis Ferdinand, Dan 
Erskine, Roderick Davis. 

(4) Lovina Richardson, married Nathaniel G. Jos- 
hai, who resided upon the old Richardson farm at Waits- 
field, where he died in 1874, leaving one son, Louis. 

iv. FREDERICK, born March 9, 1781, married first Lovina 
Steele, who died in 1813, second Eliza Waldron, who 
died in 1826, and third Mrs. Betsy (l]illings) Jordon. He 
was a physician and resided at Waitsfield and at Water- 
bury, Vt. He died at Waitsfield Dec. 30, 1860. He had 
three children by his first wife and five by the second : 

(1) Ahira Steele Richardson, married Mary Ann 
Babcroft and had one daughter, Frances A. 



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(2) Elisha Benton Richardson, married Ik'Uy On tier 
and had eight children: Lovina married Holland Jones; 

Albert married, Tinkham ; Ed^nn, killed in the 

Civil War; Carlos E. married Lovina B. Ricliardson; 
Lanra married Charles Prentice; Loren married Miss 
Reed ; John, name of wife imknowoi ; Ahira S. married 
Emma Sonles of St. Albans, Vt 

(3) Lovina Stoole liieliardson died young. 

(4) Frederick A. Richardson married Lucia Wood 
and had Eliza, Homer and Frank. 

(5) Samuel Richardson died unmanned. 

(6) John W. Richardson married first, Eugenia 
Joslin; second, Arcenath Hadley, and had three children 
all I)_v his first wife, Cyrus, Flora and Charles. 

(7) Oraniol Richardson, name of wife unknown, re- 
sided at Roxbury, Vt., and later at Billingham, Mass., 
where he died. It is regTetted that more information 
cannot be given about him, as one of his cousins wrote 
many years ago that he was a man with an unusually fine 
character. His three children were Seldon, Persis and 
Rolla. 

(8) Amanda Richardson, married Erastus N. Spald- 
ing. 

V. PERSTS, born IMarch 16, 1783, married Samuel Robin- 
son, and died in 1859 without issue. 

vi. VIXA, born Oct. 31, 1785, married Eli Baker and died 
in Somers, Conn., in 1865, without issue. 

vii. IRA, bom Jan. 23, 1788, married Rachel Durkee; re- 
sided at Fayston, Vt., where he died Dec. 15, 1844. He 
served in the War of 1812 and was a member of the 
Legislature from Fayston. Their seven children were: 

(1) Ira Richardson, born in 1816, married Harriet 
F. Chapman ; resided in Waitsfield, where lie probably 
died. He was a successful business man, a prominent mem- 
ber of the Methodist Oliurch, a Judge of Washington Co., 
and a mend)er of both branches of the Legislature. He 



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bad five children: Calvin C, born in 1845, married Ter- 
rence Kelsey; Ira E., born in 1848, married Eleanor 
Allen; Clarence M., born in 1849, married Isabella A. 
Kneeland; Orville H., born in 1852, nnmarried; Meriden 
L., born in 1854, married Flora E. Allen. 

(2) Eli Baker Eicbardson, married Lydia Sweat and 
resided in Bums, Wis. Their nine children were: Ira, 
Egbert, Herbert, Alonzo, Eugene, Florence, Lovila, Ro- 
sette and Emma. 

(3) De Witt C. Richardson, married Ann Eliza 
Giddings and resided at Eau Claire, Wis. He was High 
Sheriff of that county. His seven children were : James 
I., Duane, Mary, Flora, Emma, Addie and Jessie. 

(4) Duane M. Richardson, married Pamelia Scott 
and resided at Leon, Wis. Children: Lome, Lucius 
and De Witt. 

(5) Rachel C. Richardson married Lucius S. Greggs 
and resided at Tomah, Wis., Avhere they had Orman J., 
Clarence, Florence and Harriet. 

(6) Lucinda C. Richardson married Robert Mosher 
ajid had three children, -who died young. 

(7) Lovila Richardson died unmarried. 

viii. LOTHROP, born Aug. 27, 1790, married Charity Skin- 
ner, of Waitsfield, where he resided for a number of vears 
and then moved with his family to Coventry, Conn., where 
he died July 15, 1850. Children: Charles, Eli, Harriet,, 
Vina, and perhaps others. 

ix. ROSWELL, born in Stafford Nov. 16, 1793, married 
Mary Huntington. Lie w'as a soldier in the War of 1812 ; 
after the war, in 1815, he moved to Mt. Pleasant, Pa.,, 
where he resided until 1827, when he settled in Waits- 
field, Vt., where he lived until a few years before his death, 
which occurred at Keene, IST. H., Dec. 10, 1886. 

He was of great assistance to the author by giving in- 
formation concerning his family history. Lie had twelve 
children, all dying in infancy except the following five : 



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(1) Laura A. Richardson married Joseph Barnes and 
resided at Fitchbnrg, Mass. (no children). 

(2) Rachel Rebecca Richardson married George S. 
Ellis, resided at Keene, N. II., and. had four children: 
Lizzie Frances, Edward Stanley, Mary W^^man and Henry 
Judson. 

(3) Persis R. Richardson went to California in 1868, 
where she was a teacher until 1876, when she married 
Luke Lukes ; she now resides in Santa Cruz, and has no 
children. 

(4) Elizabeth Richardson died unmarried. 

(5) Judson Wade Richardson married, in 1857, 
]\Iarilla A. Goodwin. He was a Union soldier in the Civil 
War for three years and was in many important battles, 
making a record of which his family are proud. He re- 
sides at Warren, Vt., and had three children: Fred C, 
born in 1860; Belle Louisa, bom in 1867, and Elwyn 
Heath, born in 1869. 

X. RALPH, born March 10, 1796, married and had three 
children: Mary Jane, Ralph and Roderick. He resided 
in Connecticut, where he died in 1858. 

xi. LAURA, born March 19, 1799, married Thomas Sargent 
in Tolland Jan. 29, 1824, resided at Warren and at North- 
field, Vt. ; after his death in 1870 at Brookfield, Vt, where 
she died in 1875. Childr(>n : Irvang, Roderick and Edwin. 

G. MA1>EL, daughter of Lemuel and Anna (Rust) Richard- 
son, born Oct. 13, 1754, married Nathaniel 
Collins at Coventry. He was born there Jan. 9, 
1748-9, went to Boston from that town at the 
Lexington alarm in 1775, removed to Manches- 
ter, Vt., before 1780, and was a Representative 
in 1805. He was at first a tanner and shoemaker, but in 1814, 
when Roswoll and his father visited them, he was a wealthy 
farmer with three sons and three or four daughters. 

They may have had a son bom before he removed to Man- 
chester. The children recorded there are Elijah, born July 8, 



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1780; Clara, Aug. 2, 1781 ; Elijah, Dec. 29, 1782; Maiy, May 
28, 1784; Rachel, Sept. 17, 1785; Lemuel, July 16, 1787, and 
Mabel, ^ov. 6, 1788. 

There is but little known about this family. In 1898 Mr. 
E. B. Smith wrote to the author that Elijah Collins was his 
grandfather and IvTathaniel Collins his great-grandfather; that 
he resided in, the brick house at Manchester Centre whidi l^a- 
thaniel Collins erected. He remembered that the latter had 
three sons and that his wife was a Richardson. 



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7. RICHARD, born Sept. 29, 1755. 

8. Infant son, bom Feb. 17, died Feb. 22, 1757. 

9. Daughter, bom Dec. 26, 1758. 

10. STEPHENS', born May 25, died IS^ov. 4, 1760. 

The above were children of Lemuel and Anna (Rust) 
Richardson, as shoAm by the Coventry town records; there is 
no other information about them. 

11. ANN'E, daughter of Lemuel and Anna (Rust) Richardson, 

bom Oct. 19, 1761, married Nathaniel Thomp- 
son at Coventry, who was born in 1752 and was 
a Revolutionary soldier. He married a daugh- 
ter of Lemuel Richardson, but there is no posi- 
tive proof that it was Anne, and the Christian 
name of his wife has not been found. 

In 1818 he was a Revolutionary pensioner and resided 
at Manchester. His application for a pension contains the affi- 
davits of Hezekiah Richardson and Olive, his wife, of Coven- 
try, stating that he came back to Coventry lame from his service 
in the war; also that he moved from Coventry to Johnstown, 
K Y., in 1805. 

In 1814 he resided in Dorset, the adjoining town to Man- 
chester, Avhere he was visited by Roswell Richardson and his 
father. Mr. E. B. Smith, of Manchester, before mentioned, 
thinks he had a son l^athan and perhaps other children. 

12. STEPHEIST, son of Lemuel and Anna (Rust) Richardson, 

was born March 27, 1763. According to the 



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recollection of his graiulsou Stephen F. he served 
as a dninnnor boy in the Revolution. He mar- 
ried llnldah, daughter of Lieut. Joseph Deming, 
at Berlin, Conn., she was bcrn March 19, 
1760. In June, 1789, he was living at Stephentown, N. Y., 
where one of his sons was born ; he moved to New York prob- 
ablv so<_)n after 1800 and for some years was eni>'ai>'e(l in the 
cartage business. In 1805 he resided at 74 Ilannan Strwt, now 
East Broadway; ^ome years later moved to Brooklyn, and in 
1826 was a wood inspector. 

In 1806 his family, which included four sons and three 
daughtei*s, were all converted at a camp meeting held in Tucka- 
hoe, Westchester Co., and united with the Sands Street M. E. 
Church, Brooklyn. 

He died Oct. 29, 1827, his wife Jime 2, 1837, and they 
were buried in the Sands Street Church yard mitil 1888, when 
their remains were remoA-ed to the family plot in Greenwood. 
His will, dated August, 1826, left $100 to his brother Mar- 
velous, and $20 to his grandson Stephen Frazier; the remainder 
of his estate was left to his wife Huldah during her life, and 
after that to his children, namely, Gideon, Simon, Lemuel, 
Marvelous, Betsy Wood and Huldah Garrison, Simon and 
Lemuel were the executors. He had ten children : 

i. GIDEOX RICHAEDSON, bom Oct. 21, 1782, died at 
Shippenville, Pa., Xov. 28, 1846. In 1812 he moved to 
Elk township. Clarion Co., Pa., where he was at first a 
land agent, but subsequently bought land and improved 
it. He was a member of the first board of commissioners 
of Clarion Co., was 6 feet 4 inches in height, and was a 
soldier in the War of 1812. He married Nancy Ann 
VanKirk, who w^as born in Hoboken, N. J., and who died 
at Shippenville Nov. 6, 1854, aged 73. They had six 
children : 

(1) Charlotte Richardson, born Aug. 19, 1810, died 
.May, 1888; married Peter Heasley, and had eight chil- 
dren: Jeremiah, born March 26, 1831, died in 1883; 
Julia Ann, born April 20, 1833 ; Gideon Perry, bora Sept, 
23, 1835, died May 19, 1836; Obediah F., bora May 3, 



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1838, resides at Panora, Iowa; Sarah E., born May 7, 
1840, died Jan. 5, 1902; Henry, born Oct. 16, 1843, 
residence unknown; Clarissa E., born June 12, 1845, died 
April 16, 1850; Peter, born June 27, 1847, residence 
unknown. 

(2) Elizabeth Richardson, bom Sept. 8, 1812, mar- 
ried Mr. Jerrard, or Jarrett, and moved to Maryland. 
There is no further account of her. 

(3) Carolina Richardson, born Jan. 3, 1814, mar- 
ried Robert Allen, died in 1851, and had five children: 
Druzilla, bom in 1835, died in 1851; John married and 
resides in Clay township, Butler Co., Pa. ; Gideon R., mar- 
ried and has two children (residence Euclid, Pa.) ; Lizzie, 
born in 1843, died without issue, in 1901 ; Henry, born in 
1845, served in the 11th Pa. Cavaliy in the Civil War, 
and was killed near Suffolk, Va., in 1862 or '63. 

(4) Richard Riohardson, born Jan. 22, 1816, mar- 
ried Elizabeth Rice, resides at Franklin, Venango Co., Pa., 
and has had four children: Frances Annett man*ied 
Capt. Henry M. Hughes, who served three years in the 
Civil War in the Pa. Cavalry; Lucia Lorania married 
Budley S. Black; -Kolliii R., born in 1847, resides in 
Patagonia, Ariz., unmarried; Harriet E. married Orrin 
T>. Bleakley, President of the Franklin Trust Co. 

(5) Thomas Gideon Richardson, born April 21, 1818, 
died Oct. 16, 1896, at Blooming Valley, Crawford Co., 
Pa. ; married Sarah ^Vhitohill, who died May 27, 1871, and 
had three children: First, James W., born Oct. 28, 1841, 
married Clara Jones. Lie served in the 103rd Pa. Reg. 
three years and nine months during the Civil War and was 
confined in a Confederate prison 10 months aud 6 days. 
Second, Gideon F., born June, 1843, died Feb. 22, 1901, 
at Lima, O. ; served in the Civil War, and married Mary 
Eminger. Third, Lemuel, born 1845, served in the Civil 
War, married Mary A. Call, resides at Shippenville. 

(6) John Henry Richardson, born July 20, 1823, 
died at Knox, Pa., Dec. 21, 1896; married Elizabeth J. 
Thompson, Jan. 1, 1846. They had seven children : Cla- 

The above Richard Richardson die<l March 22, icp(>, aged 90. He 
was widely known as Colonid Richardson, acquired a fortune as 
a mcrchaia a'-ul oil oM^rator, liad great force of character. 



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rissa, born March 19, 1848, married Amos R. Black, of 
Ctmer d'Alene, Idaho; Laura Jane, born March 3, 1850, 
died Dec. 4, 1861; Maryetta, born June 3, 1852, died 
Jan. 27, 1876; EUa, born Oct. 30, 1854, married Allen 
]\IcLean, of Lynch, W. Va. ; Robert M., born June 5, 
1851, resides in Allentown, X. Y. ; Lucia, born ISTov. 6, 
1861, married John X. Heeter, of Knox, Pa. ; George B., 
born Feb. 23, 1864, married Ella May Yates and had 
Eugene Clifton Aug. 17, 1891; Leo Duane June 5, 1894; 
Fred Wilson, Oct. 22, 1896; Carolyn Elizabeth March 23, 
1899. They reside at Knox, Pa. 

ii. SIMOX RICHARDSOX, bom May 16, 1784, married 
first, Sarah Sharp, who died in 1819, aged 33, and second, 
Anna Sharp, her sister. He died in the town of Bushwick 
(now in the Borough of Brooklyn) Oct. 28, 1850. He was 
a ])r(iniincnt member of the Sands Street M. E. Church, 
where he was a class leader in 1807 ; also an early member 
and class leader of the Washington Street Church, and sub- 
sequently of the Cooper Street Church, where he was a 
cilass leader and trustee. 

He is described as "circumspect, inchistrious and gen- 
erous."* He Avas a grocer in Brooklyn and later a rope 
manufacturer at "Cross Roads" in Bushwick, by which 
he acquired a fortune. He was a member of the Board 
that organized the first public school in Brooklyn in 1816. 
He is said to have weighed over 300 pounds. He had eight 
children, three by his first wife : 

(1) Marvin D. Richardson, born in 1806, married 
Sarah, daughter of Joseph Johnson, and died in 1834, 
being described in his will as "late of the City of Xew 
York, merchant." He left two children: Emma Louise 
and Sarah Jane, who died in 1839, aged five years. The 
first daughter, Emma Louise, married John Lemuel Cham- 
bers in 1853 and had three children : Josephine Chambers, 
who married John B. Garrison in 1881, resides at Red 
Bank, X". J., and has a son, Horton B. ; Emma Louise 



*Warriner's "History of old Sands Street Church." 



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Chambers, who married Edward Jacob Hhaw in 1882 and 
died in 1886, leaving one child, Fannie Sanford, and 
(third) Frank Marvin Chambers. .^ 

(2) Sarah Ann Richardson, born in 1809, died April 
16, 1847, aged 38, married Josiah Lewis, by whom she had 
ten children: Charles Lewis, born in 1828, died unmar- 
ried; Lucinda E. Lewis, born March 6, 1830, married 
James A. Clark, and resides in Brooklyn; Sarah Ann 
Lewis married Simeon Rowling ; Marvin D. Lewis ; Simon 
R. Lewis ; Jane Isabella Lewis married Ely Dimklee ; 
William E. Lewis, George A. Lewis ; Grace I. Lewis 
married Elanson Dunklee; Helen F. Lewis married David 
Lewis. 

(3) William Sharp Richardson, born in Attorney 
or in Arundell Street, New York, Nov. 20, 1812, married 
first, Marcia C. H. Garrison April 14, 1833, who died 
Dec. 15, 1887 ; second, Mrs. Jennie L. Camp, and died 
July 25, 1895. He had three children: Caroline M., born 
Nov., 18, 1835, died March 15, 1884; George M., born 
Sept. 17, 1843, married Hester Ann Hubbard, resides in 
Brooklyn ; William S., born iVug. 3, 1849, married Elucy 
Addie Hubbard, and died Jan. 25, 1891. 

(4) Stephen F. Richardson, born in New York in 
1821, died May 14, 1896, married first, Caroline Engle; 
second, Sara E. Dexter, and third, Ellen Dow, each of 
whom left one son: Frank E. died in 1891, leaving a 
daughter Lillian; Edgar M., born Aug. 17, 1855, mar- 
ried Emma L. Bendall, resides in Brooklyn, and has 
Gifford D., born in 1882, and Edna L., 1885; Sumner 
D. married Elizabeth W. Gedney and died without issue 
in August, 1895. 

(5) George Richardson, born in 1823, died about 
1838. 

(6) Grace Richardson, born August, 1826, married 
William R. Meserole, and has three children: George, 
Amanda and Frederick. 



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(7) Amanda Richardson married Mark J. Bendall 
and died witlmut issue. 

(8) Clementine Richardson died March 5, 1883, un- 
married. 

iii. LEMUEL RICHARDSON, born Nov. 2, 1786, married 
Ann Sophia Hoffman and died in Williamsburg, now 
Brooklyn, Feb. 1, 1853. His wife died the 21st of the 
same month, aged 61 years. He was engaged for a few 
years in the cartage business with his father; after that 
he was a grocer at 48 Rivington Street. He removed to 
Williamsburg before 1828, where he became one of the 
most prominent and wealthy citizens. 

Richardson Street was named for him and Cornelia 
Street for one of his daughters. A few years before his 
death he commenced the manufacture of locks and build- 
ers' hardware in Houston Street, New York. He also had 
a hardware store in Williamsburg. Stiles' "History of 
"Kino's Co." o-ives this estimate of him : "He was a care- 
ful business man of excellent judgment and sterling quali- 
ties; was about the only citizen who survived the land job- 
bing speculators of the village without becoming bank- 
rupt, which gave him a high position in the community." 
They had ten children : 

(1) Catharine Knapp Richardson, born Jan. 28, 
1811, married William Nodine, resided in Powers Street, 
had a daughter, Amanda, who married Mr. Hillyer, and a 
son, Lemuel. 

(2) Benjamin Samuel Knapp Richardson, born 
March 4, 1813, married Olive W. Hodges and died in New 
York Ctity March 19, 1858. He was Deputy Sheriff of 
Kings County (Brooklyn), and for a number of years was 
the manager and one of the owners of a New York City 
stage line. Their four children were: Olive White, who 
married, April 20, 1859, Dr. John Alexander Brady, of 
Brookl3'n, and had Edward, who was born and died in 
1861; William, who was born and died in 1862; Olive 
Richardson, born in 1863 ; Eunice, 1865 ; Edith Richard- 



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son, 1867; Elizabeth, 1868; Sophia Meserole, 1869; 
Emma, 1871 (married Pahner A. Paddock) ; Anna, 1873, 
and Harriet, 1877. 

Andrew Bowne, second child of Benjamin S. K. 
JRichardson, born Aug. 21, 1836, married Mary A. Heer- 
mance, and died July 3, 1901. They had three sons: 
Andrew H., born March 22, 1867, died March 19, 1896 ; 
Benjamin K., born Oct. 10, 1870, married Elizabeth M. 
Eowler June 15, 1898, has a son Frederick F., born Sept. 
16, 1904; resides at Fernandina, Fla., where he is the 
manager of a lumber company; Alfred H., born Dec. 25, 
1873 ; residence iinknoM^i. 

Ann Sophia, third child of Benjamin S. K. Richard- 
son, married April 20, 1859, General Jeremiah Vander- 
bilt Meserole, of Brooklyn, where he has long been a man 
of note. He was formerly a surveyor by profession and 
built up a large business, which is still carried on by one 
of his sons. When the Civil War broke out he was a 
member of the Seventh Regiment and served with that 
regiment in the campaign of 1861. Later he was active 
in recruiting the Forty-seventh Regiment, of which he 
was made Colonel. 

After the war he continued in command of the regi- 
ment until 1868, when he was elected Brigadier-General 
of the Eleventh Brigade, which he commanded for eight 
years. General Meserole for the past fourteen years has 
been President of the Williamsburg Savings Bank. They 
had seven children: Benjamin Richardsou, born April 2, 
1860, married May Wolcott and is a surveyor; Sophia 
Louisa, born August, 1863 ; Jeremiah Schenck, born May 
29, 1864, died March 10, 1890; Danvin James, born 
May 29, 1868, married Katherine L. Maltby and is a 
lawyer; Eleanor, born 1872, died Sept. 3, 1874; Olive 
Richardson, born Sept., 1874, died Sept. 26, 1887 ; Clin- 
ton Vanderbilt, born Oct. 6, 1876, married Ida Lewis 
Brooke; is a member of the firm of Jameson & Freling- 
liuysen, Vice-President of the Stuyvesant Insurance Co., 
and Secretary of the Pacific Fire Insurance Co. 



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Cbarlott© Bcn\Tie, youngest daughter of Benjamin S. 
K. Richardson, bom Jan. 31, 1842, married Oct. 19, 
1870, Eev. Alexander Bro^^^l Rigg-s, D.D., LL.D. Dr. 
Riggs is a well-knowii educator and Presbyterian clergy- 
man. He was formerly a lawver and an instructor in 
mathematics in Western University. In IS!)! he became 
connected with Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati 
as an instructor in Greek and in 1897 was appointed Pro- 
fessor of New Testament exegesis. 

Their three cliildren are Albert Richardson, born Mav 
12, 1873 ; Elsie Agnew, bom Nov. 21, 1874, married to 
Robert Kidd Oct. 19, 1905 ; Ella May, born July 13, 1777, 
married to R. Meredith Atkins at a double wedding with 
her sister. 

(3) Huldah Ann Richardson, born March 16, 1814, 
married Charles Davis and left four children : Maria 
married Mr. Quimby ; Josephine married Mr. Hawes ; 
Mary man'ied Mr. Burns ; John Luther. 

(4) Lemuel S. Richardson, born in New York Aug., 
1815, married first, Angeline Place, who died Sept. 24, 
1847 ; second, Elizabeth Depew. He had five children 
by the former and one by the latter. 

He succeeded his father in the Mackrall & Richard- 
son Manufacturing Company and continued in the active 
management of its affairs until 18G9, when he retired from 
active business. "Mr, Richardson was a man of stern in- 
tegrity and earnest business principles, but withal a man 
of keen sympathies and tender heart." He died at his 
residence, 334 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, September 25, 
1879. 

Children : Angeline married John Bogart, left no 
descendants; Harriet Ann married Robert Bradbrook and 
left one daughter, Eliza Ann, who lives in Philadelphia; 
Emma C, married Lawrence P. Ellison and resides in 
Brookhm, having Charles J., born in 1868, and 
Elizabeth C, born in 1872; Comelia married Frank 
Polly and has no children ; Lemuel S. uiarried Mathilda, 
and left no children; William H. married Emily and 
left two children, Warren S. and Ethel. 



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(5) Mary Furman Richardson, born July 1, 1819, 
married John F. Lnther, and died Jan. 12, 1882. Her 
husband was one of the wealthiest men in Williamsburg 
and in 1845 was associated with his father-in-law in or- 
ganizing the Grand Street M. E. Church, of which they 
were two of the first trustees. He had four children: 
Mary K. married James Farrell and had John E. ; 
Catherine A., unmarried; Hulda Davis married Charles 
F. Sanford and had John F. and David C. ; Sarah A. 
married Josiah H. Bertine, resides in Brooklyn, has a 
son, Henry L., and a daughter, Mary F. L. 

(6) James Monroe Richardson, born July 16, 1821, 
married first, Matilda Furman, second Emeline Welsh, 
and died about 1885. He had three sons: Frederick, 
Henry and Joseph Post, of whom nothing more is kno^vn. 

(7) Henry Clay Richardson, born in New York, Dec. 
12, 1824, married Anna Kennedy and resided in Williams- 
burg. He was a manufacturer and dealer in hardware, 
his store being in Grand Street, Williamsburg. At the 
time of his death, Aug. 7, 1878, the Brooklyn Times pub- 
lished a lengthy notice of him, from which the following 
is taken: 

"In his business relations, Mr. Richardson was the soul of 
honor. He was highly respected by all his associates and his 
credit was unlimited among hardware men. His employees in the 
factory were always treated with respect, and those who served 
him faithfully received his approbation. At the outbreak of the 
war, he called together his men and told them that those who 
desired to enlist could find employment with him when they re- 
turned. 

"In politics he was a staunch Republican, and although he 
never took a very active part in political movements, he regarded 
all matters concerning affairs of state with a keen interest. Al- 
though not a member of any church, Mr. Richardson favored the 
Methodists, and of late years he attended St. John's Church, being 
warmly attached to it. Deceased had five children, two sons and 
three daughters; but of these only three survive, the sons hav- 
ing died before their father. 

"Mr. Richardson was moderately wealthy. He was a director 
in the Manufacturers' Bank, director in and treasurer of the 
Grand Street Railroad Company, one of the trustees of the Wil- 
liamsburgh Savings Bank, and a director in the Firemen's Insur- 
ance Fund." 



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His widow resides in Hempstead. Their throe daugh- 
ters: Lydia married Major William H. Day, resides at 
Diibnque, Iowa; Eleanor married James T. Fountain, 
resides at Hempstead ; Grace married Daniel A. Hender- 
son and resides in Dubuque. 

(8) Eiiehel Hoffman Richardson, born April 26, 
1827, married Dr. Samuel C. Hanford, and died Sept. 1, 
1869, leaving two children: Dr. CharlfiS. .^who diediedS 
(piarriecy and Jennie, wife of David V, Westbrook, of 
Kingston, X. Y. 

(1)) Cornelia Cox Richardson, born June 7, 1830, 
married Aaron Jennings Oct. 31, 1847, and died March 
20, 1862, leaving three children: Charlotte C, born in 
1848; William Marvin, 1851; Frank Luther, 1856. 

(10) Charlotte Elizabeth Richardson, born Sept. 28, 
1833, married William F. Garrison, March 1, 1853, and 
died Julv 21, 1866. Thev had one child, who died in 
infancy. 

REV. MARVIA" RICHxiRDSOX, D.D. 

iv, MARVIX, lx)rn in Stephentown, Rensselaer Co., X. Y., 
June 10, 1789, was named Marvelous for his father's 
brother, but changed his name before he entered the min- 
istry to Marvin, probably because so much jest was made 
of his uncle's name. 

He was, however, called Marvelous in his father's Avill 
in 1826. He was converted with his father's family, as 
before stated, at a camp meeting in 1806, but previous 
to this he had been attending the Sands Street M. E. 
Church, of which his uncle Marvelous was a member. His 
conversion connnenced in the fall of 1805, while he was 
attending that church. It is a tradition in the family 
that he worked for a few years in his uncle's shoe shop, 
which was situated within a feM' rods of the Sands Street 
Church. 

He was made a class leader in the church in 1807 
and was licensed to preach by the New York Conference 



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in October, 1808 ; be continued a member of tbat con- 
ference nntil bis deatb, a period of sixty-seven years. 

He was married to Sarab Morgan, daugbter of Eli jab 
and Lavina (Hatfield) Morgan, April 7, 1813, and bad 
four cbildren. Tbe degree of D.D. was conferred upon 
bim bv Weslevan University in 1868. He died in Pouffb- 
keepsie June 14, 1876, aged 87i years, being tbe oldest 
living member of tbe Xew York Conference. Tbe follow- 
ing account of bim is taken from a sketcb publisbed by tbe 
Conference : 

"He received regular appointments as a minister forty-two 
consecutive years, of whicli fourteen years were spent on circuits, 
thiiteen years in stations, and fifteen years as Presiding Elder of 
districts. He was a member of eight successive General Confer- 
ences, from 1820 to 1852. The records of this Conference will 
show his regular attendance at its annual gathering, without in- 
terruption or failure, for over sixty years, and his first failure, 
which was by reason of sickness, was one of the painful disap- 
po'ntmerts of his life. 

"Marvin Richardson was a co-worker with those men who, in 
their early ministry, enjoyed the luxuries of long weary days of 
travel on horseback, through trackless forests, fording rivers, 
sleeping in log huts, with beds often covered with snow, preach- 
ing six, eight, and ten times a week, winding up the year's toil 
with 'empty pockets,' with 'threadbare garments,' 'but with a har- 
vest of souls.' 

"The record of his life is a record of over 'four-score' years 
without a blot or stain; a record of early and deep religious ex- 
perience, of consistent piety, of ardent love to God and the Church, 
of a successful ministry, and at the close a record of 'patient wait- 
ing' and 'holy triumph.' A 'man of God' in every sense of the 
word, 'an Israelite indeed, in whom there was no guile.' Tender 
in his regard for the feelings and reputation of others, genial in 
spirit, ardent in affection, with child-like simplicity of manner, he 
multiplied and perpetuated the most endearing friendships. He 
was a man of strong convictions, but convictions well regulated 
by the power of divine grace, ever fearing lest he should err in 
judgment, or by any means give offense." 

At one of tbe last conferences be attended an earnest 
discussion took place concerning tbe use of tobacco, wbicb 
will be of interest, altbougb tbe autbor does not sbare bis 
opinions on tbat subject. It occurred in connection witb 
tbe questioning of a class of young men, wbo were candi- 
dates for tbe ministry. At tbe close of a very animated 
discussion : 

"Father Marvin Richardson, since dead, then the oldest and 
one of the most respected members of the Conference, rose from 



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his place on the pulpit sofa, and in a voice weakened by age, ad- 
dressed the 300 ministers present, who maintained the stillness of 
the grave to hear him: 'Bishop and brethren, I once was young; 
now I am old. I have used tobacco all my life in some one or 
more of its forms. It has been my comfort in trouble, and often 
my medicine when sick. If it has ever harmed me I am not aware 
of it. These young men may do as their consciences dictate; but 
as for m", no pressure could be put upon me to make me testify 
against it, and my tongue shall wither in my mouth before I say 
a word except in praise of that most blessed creature of God — to- 
bacco.' " 

Of course this ^vas an ex-parte view and clearly the 
unpopular one in the Conference. The anti-tobacconists 
groaned, the smokers and chewers laughed until tliev 
cried, but the Conference dropped the subject for that 
year. 

His four children were: 

(1) Xancy Morgan Richardson, born in 1814, mar- 
ried Rev. Leonai'd M. Vincent Oct. 16, 1833, and died at 
Poughkeepsie Oct. 26, 1898, leaving three children, of 
which the eldest was 

REV. MARVIX RICHARDSON VINCENT, D.D. 

Dr. Vincent was born at Poughkeepsie Sept. 11, 1834, 
married Hulda Fowler Seagrave, of Providence, R. I., 
Jime 30, 1858. He was educated at Columbia College, 
then assisted in directing the Columbia Grammar School 
for four years, after which he became Professor of Latin 
in Troy University. 

Having studied theology in private, he was ordained 
as minister of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, but his 
views changed and he entered the ministry of the Presby- 
terian Church. He was pastor of the First Presbyterian 
Cliurch in Troy, 1863-73, of the Church of the Covenant 
in New York, 1873-88, then accepted the chair of sacred 
literature in Union Seminary. 

He is one of the trustees of Columbia University and 
has written "Translation of Bengel's Gnomon of the New 
Testament," 1860-62; "Amusement a Force in Christian 
Training," 1867 ; "The Two Prodigals," 1876 ; "The Law 
of Sowing and Reaping," 1877; "Gates Into the Psalm 



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Country," 1878 ; "Xot Discerning the Lord's Body," 1879 ; 
"Why Should I Join the Church ?" 1879 ; "Christ at the 
Door," 1879; "Stranger and Guest," 1879; "Faith and 
Character," 1880 ; "Ministers' Handbook," 1882 ; "In the 
Shadow of the Pyrenees," 1883; ''God and Bread," 1884; 
"The Expositor in the Pulpit," 1881; "Christ as a 
Teacher," 1886; "The Covenant of Peace," 1887; "Word 
Studies in the Is'ew Testament," 1887-1900; "Students' 
l^e^\ Testament Handbook," 1893; "That Monster, the 
Higher Critic," 1894; "Biblical Inspiration and Christ," 
1894; "The Age of Ilildebrand," 1896; "Critical Com- 
mentary on Philippians and Philemon (International Com- 
mentary)," 1897; "A History of the Textual Criticism of 
the A"ew Testament," 1899. "^ 

He has had four children : Helen Seagrave, born 
April 13, 1859, married Oct. 11, 1880, His Excellency 
The Marquis de Apezteguia, of Cuba, and died Eeb. 21, 
1898. Children: 

1. Elena Josefa Mariana de Apezteguia, born Sept. 5, 1882. 

2. Emilia Guillermina Carlotta de Apezteguia, born Aug. 16, 1883. 

3. Julio Jose (Junior), born Sept. 17, 1886. 

4. Hulda Catalina Inez de Apezteguia, boi'n April 30, 1891. 

Katherine Storm, second daughter of Rev. Marvin 
P. Vincent, born Dec. 13, 1860, married Dec. 7, 1887, 
Benjamin Franklin Butler, Jr., and has Edith Vincent, 
born Sept. 16, 1888, and Benjamin Franklin 3rd, bom 
Aug. 17, 1893. 

Edith, third daughter of Rev. Marvin R. Vincent, 
born May 11, 1865, married Howard Granville Butler 
Dec. 8, 1897, and has Helen Granville, bom in 1899. 

Mary Leonard, fourth daughter of Rev. Marvin R. 
Vincent, was born Sept. 14, 1871, and died July 12, 1872. 

The second child of Rev. Leonard M. and jSTancy M. 
(Richardson) Vincent, John Wilkinson, born Oct. 28, 
1838, married first, Emma T. Smith, who died in 1869;. 
second. Agues ]\[orton, resides at West Orange, iS^. J., and 
is treasurer of the Life Association of America. Chil- 
dren: Leonard R., born 'Nov. 21, 1865; Mary, born April 
23, 1875; Grace (died young) ; Marvin R., born July 28,. 
1885. 



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Marv, third and youngest child of Eev. Leonard M. 
and Nancy ]\Iorgan (Richardson) Vincent, married first, 
Rev. James F. McCleHand in 1875 ; second, Joseph Gran- 
ville West in 1894. She had three children : Xancv Mc- 
Clelland (Vassar, '97), James McClelland and Mary 
McClelland. 

(2) Samuel M. Richardson, born in 1818, married 
Carolina T. Lockwood June 5, 1856, and died in 1869. 
lie was educated for a physician, but never practiced, was 
an "iron" man and amassed a fortune in the business. 
They had no children. 

(3) Jane Isabella Richardson, born in 1820, married 
Sept. ;>, 1840, James Reynolds and died in 1890, leaving 
five children : Sarah E. Reynolds, born in 1841, married 
Lewis Crook in 1860 and died without issue in 1887. 

John Richardson Reynolds, born 1847, married Jane 
H. Wilkinson in 1874 and died in 1889. Their only child, 
Helen Wilkinson, born in 1875, resides unmarried in 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. She has been of much assistance 
to the author in collecting a record of the family. 

Grace Reynolds, born in 1849, married Joseph E. 
Allen in 1870 and died in 1881. Their children all died 
joung. 

Ella Vincent Reynolds, bcn-n in 1855, died in infancy. 

James Reynolds, fifth and last child of James and 
Jane Isabella (Richardson) Reynolds, bom in 1858, mar- 
ried) Mary Jewett in 1883 and had a son, James, born in 
1884, who died young. He is a merchant and resides in 
Poughkeepsie. 

(4) Rebecca Richardson (youngest child of Rev. 
Marvin) was born in 1828, married Henry S. Morgan 
April 2, 1850, and died Sept. 7, 1902; he died Nov. 3, 
1904; they had no children. 

V. ELIZABETH RICHARDSON (daughter of Stephen 
and Huldah), Iwm July 14, 1791; married first, John 
Wood ; second, John Osborn, and died Oct. 4, 1846, leav- 
ing four children by her first husband. 



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She is called Betsy Wood in her father's will dated 
Augiisf, 1826, but in August, 1839, she signed a deed as 
Elizabeth Osborn. Children : 

(1) John Wood died young. 

(2) Ann Eliza Wood, born October, 1809. She was 
the first wife of Samuel W. Sale, who married Mary, 
daughter of Marvelous and Phebe Eiehardson, for his 
second wife, by whom he had no children. Children of 
Samuel W. and Ann Eliza (Wood) Sale: Annie E. mar- 
ried Mr. Owen ; Charlotte D. married Thomas Goin ; John 
W. ; Emily G. ; lona married Henry Smith. 

(3) Charlotte AVood married George Danegar and 
had three children: Emma, Anna E., George W. 

(4) Ebenezer Wood had a son, Henry, and other 
children. 

vi. BENJAMIN KICHARDSON, born Jan. 1, died Nov. 5, 
1794. 

vii. ANNA RICHARDSON, born Oct. 4, 1795, married 
Thomas Frazier at Enfield, Conn., and resided in Brook- 
lyn, where she died Nov. 28, 1824, leaving six children : 

(1) Harriet Kirk Frazier, born June 19, 1811, mar- 
ried Nathan Thomas Beers, of Brooklyn, and died Jan. 7 
1889, leaving six children: Thomas Hawlcy, Stephen 
Richardson, Elizabeth Wright, unmarried; Nathan T. 
married Elizabeth L. Granger (Dr. Nathan T. Beers, Jr., 
is their son), Frank Bartlett, umnarried ; Lillie married 
James H. Taft, Jr., and has four children. 

(2) William Frazier, married, resided in Brooklyn, 
and died about 1899. He has no descendants living. 

(3) Stephen Frazier, resided in Brooklyn, where he 
died, leaving two children. 

(4) Huldah Ann Frazier married Hon. Samuel S. 
Powell, a notable Mayor of Brooklyn. He died Feb. 6, 



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18-79, and she survived him for about, ten vears ; their only 
son died Avithout issue before his father. 

(5) Sarah Frazier married Benjamin W. Payne, of 
Corning, X. Y. 

(0) Cornelia G, Frazier married Henry Mitchell, of 
Brooklyn. 

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viii. CIIAKLOTTE EICHARDSOX, born May 14, 1798, 
died April 25, 1808. 

ix. HULDAH D. EICIIAEDSON, born Oct. 26, 1800, mar- 
ried Jacob Garrison, son of Judge John Garrison, March 
26, 1817. He died Oct. 11, 1860, aged 70, his widow 
April 8, 1874, leaving five children : 

(1) John Garrison married Ann Miller and had five 
children : Thomas, Emma, John, George and Anna. 

(2) William F. Garrison, born Jan. 3, 1833, mar- 
ried Charlotte E. Richardson (daughter of Lemuel) 
March 1, 1853, and died July 8, 1902. They had one 
child, which died in infancy. 

(3) Marcia C. H. Garrison married, April 14, 1833, 
William S. Richardson, son of Simon, and died Dec. 15, 

1887. 

(4) Caroline Garrison, born July 27, 1819, married 
John C. Lynch Dec. 31, 1834, and died June 5, 1890, 
leaving four children : Leonard Jay, Maria Louise, 
William Richard and George Frederick. 

(5) Stephen Garrison married Caroline Fields and 
had two children: William S. and Huldah. 

X. STEPHEIs^ RICHARDSO^^ born Sept. 8, 1802, died 
July 26, 1804. 

13. :MARVEL0US, son of Lemuel and Anna (Rust) Richard- 
son, Avas born Oct. 18th, 1764, according to the 
Coventry town records, or Oct. 16 if the inscrip- 



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tion on his tombstone is correct. The Coventry 
record of his birth gives his name as Marvel, and 
it was printed as Marvel in the first Brooklyn 

directory, published in 1822, and continued in that form until 

his death. 

The probate records, however, give it as Marvelous, and 
he is called Marvelous in his brother Stephen's will. It is sup- 
posed that he was given that name on account of the unusual 
circumstance of his being born either three or five days before 
his twdn brother Dan. 

The family name of his wife Phebe is unknown, nor is it 
known when he settled in Brooklyn, probably a number of 
years before his brother Stephen came to New York. The most 
that is known about him is given in Stiles' ''History of Brook- 
lyn," from which the following is taken : 

"On the southerly side of Middagh Street, after passing two small 
frame buildings, we come to the low one-story house of Marvelous 
Richardson, shoemaker.* It was built by the Hessians, during the 
Revolutionary War, as a guard-house, and here, also, for a short time, 
during the rectorship of Rev. Mr. Wright, the Episcopalians worshipped 
in a hired room, rudely fitted up for the purpose, with pulpit, reading 
desk and seats, and here gathered the few churchmen of the village 
and indeed of the county. 

"Furnian (manuscript notes), says that Judge John Garrison was 
also an original member of this church, but that, having become dis- 
satisfied with the distribution of the pews (no unimportant matter in 
those days), and not getting so eligible a one as he deemed himself 
entitled to, he seceded, taking with him several others with whom he 
was instrumental in forming the Methodist Church. 

"Marvelous Richardson (whose name in common parlance, was gen- 
erally either shortened to Marvel, or lengthened to Miraculous Marvel), 
was perhaps one of these seceders, as he figures among the earlier 
Methodists of Brooklyn, and the schism may have been the cause of 
the very short stay which the Episcopalians made in this spot. 

"After Marvelous Richardson, this old building was occupied by 
Ithial Smead as a school, and in June, 1824, was leased from the heirs 
of John Middagh, by Thomas Kirk, who remodelled the front and 
converted it into three stores." 

Marvelous Richardson died Dec. 19, 1831, and was buried 
in the Old Sands Street Churchyard, his widow Jan. 22, 1845, 
aged 70 years. His widow and son Hiram were appointed 
administrators of his estate and after her death Hiram was ap- 

*This house was located on Fulton Street, three or four doors above 
Middagh, and opposite the entrance to the bridge. 



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pointed administrator. His last address was 94 Cranberry 
Street, which was the address of his widow the next year. In 
1888 their remains were removed to the Sands Street Church 
plot in EvergTeens, where a headstone with this inscription 
marks their last resting- place: 

In Memory of 

]\rARVEL Richardson Also of Phebe Richardson 

who departed this life wife of Marvel Richardson 
December 19, 1831, died Jan'y 22, 1845, 

aged 67 years, 2 months, and 3 aged 70 years, 

days. 

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. 

They ha<l five diildren : 

i. BEN JAMIX RICHARDSON married Mary Ann Higby. 
His name first appears in the Brooklyn Directory in 1830 
as a shoemaker and last in 1850 with the same occupation; 
for many years, however, he was a letter-carrier.* He is 
said to have been buried in Greenwood. He had six chil- 
dren. 

(1) Agnes resides in Illinois unmarried. 

(2) David married and died without issue. 

(3) Hiram resides in the West and has three chil- 
dren. 

(4) Aurelia married Mr. Sellick, resided in Hunting- 
ton, L. I., and has a son George. 

(5) Stephen. It is not known whether he had child- 
ren or not. 

(G) Phebe Ann nuirried Mr. Gerkin and had a daugh- 
ter Josiahanna. 



♦Benjamin Richardson, who took the mail twice daily to New York 
and back was the only letter-carrier of the village, and like many 
other historic personages survives in the memory of many, owing to 
a highly-gifted dog which always accompanied him. This benevolent 
quadruped entered with spirit on the business of letter-carrying and 
evinced a remarkable relish for the virtuous shins of our ancient cit- 
izens of thirty years ago. 

From Stiles "History of Brooklyn." 



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ii. HIKAM KICHARDSO^T^ bom in 1804, married Mary 
A. Van Voorhis July 26, 1826, and died in Brooklyn Oct. 
24, 1868; She died July 10, 1860. He was in the grocery 
business with his brother Manuel. They had four children : 

(1) John William Fletcher Richardson, born Xov. 3, 
1825, married Susan McManus and died in Brooklyn about 
1883, He had four children: Charles, Mary Ann mar- 
ried Michael McCmtohen, Phebe married Mr. Hurley 
and left, one son, in Philadelphia ; George died young. 

(2) Simeon Hall Richardson, born March 15, 1831, 
married Mary McManus (sister of Susan), served in the 
Civil War, and resided some years in Texas. He left a 
son, Simeon, of whom nothing more is known, 

(3) Phebe Jane Richardson, born June 30, 1838, 
married Charles Smith ; both died leaving no descendants. 

(4) Marvin Richardson, born Sept, 5, 1845, married 
Isabella Stratton, resides at 33 Middagh Street, Brooklyn, 
and has had two children: George Marvin, born June 18, 
1879, resides with his father; Joseph Taylor, born July 6, 
1882 ; died Dec. 4, 1904. 

iii, MARVEL (or MARVIN) RICHARDSOX, He and his 
sister were twins. He was engaged in the grocery business 
with his brother Hiram under the firm name of M. & H. 
Richardson, and died umnarried in 1849, 

iv. MARY RICHARDSO^T married Samuel W. Sale and 
died without issue, 

V. ELIZABETH RICHARDSOX married John D. String- 
ham, died in Orange Co. Children : 

(1) George Stringham, 

(2) Emeline Stringham. 

(3) Mary Stringham married Jonathan Wood, of 
Paterson, IST. J. 



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(4) Cordelia Striiigliam. 

(5) Dean Swift Stringham left a daughter Ella, who 
married James H. Killough. 

14. DA^N", son of Lemuel and Anna (Rust) Richardson, was 

bom at Coventry Oct. 21, 1764, three days after his twdn 
brother Marvelous. There is no further account of him. 

15. HUMPHREY, son of Lemuel and Anna (Rust) Richard- 
son, was born at Coventry Feb. 22, 1767. See sixth gen- 
eration, next page, for full account. 



SIXTH GENERATION. 

HUMPHREY RICHARDSON. 



^t UMPHKEY EIOHAEDSOIs^, the youngest child of 

^^ Lemuel and Anna (Rust) was bom in Coventry Feb. 

A^ A^ 22, 1767, according to the to^vn records. This date 

does not agree with the record on his tombstone at 

Canastota, N. Y., which must be incorrect. It reads as follows: 

"Sacred to the memory of Humphrey Richardson, who departed 
this life the 13th September, 1820, in the 57th year of his age." 

He married Aseneth Cole, daughter of Ebenezer and 
Abigail (Wise) Cole,* of Lebanon, Conn., about 1788 or 1789. 
He was a saddler by trade. Before 1796 he settled in "the Ob- 
long" (then called), in the town of Amenia, Dutchess Co., IST. 
Y., as in that year he and his wife signed a deed in settlement 
of her father's estate. 

Roswell Richardson, his nephew, who was born in 1793, 
made the following statement : "LTncle Humphrey visited at my 
father's house in Tolland when I was quite yomig. He was my 
father's youngest brother and lived in the State of New York, 
He was a saddler — that was before harness-maker was hitcihed 
on." 

In 1797 he Avas elected a constable at Amenia. Soon after 
settling there he commenced keeping a public house and for a 
numter of years occupied the church parsonage, the same house 
in which Captain William Chamberlain had kept a hotel during 
the Revolution. He paid the church £50 rent for this house for 
1799. About 1802 he moved to about a mile north of Amenia 
Union (formerly called Hitchcock's Corner), where he had pur- 



*Ebenezer Cole, son of Ebenezer and Esther (Owen), was born at 
Lebanon, Aug. 6, 1734, and died there of smallpox May 22, 1777. Esther 
Owen, his wife, was the granddaughter of John and Rebecca (Wade) 
of Windsor, who were also the ancestors of Elsie Owen, mother of 
Governor Reuben E. Fenton of New York, and Hannah Owen, grand- 
mother of Capt. John Brown of Osawatomie and Harper's Ferry. 

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chased 58 acres of land, the east boundary of which was the 
Cionnecticut State line. Here he built a hotel, which in 1877 
was the residence of Horace II. Reed. In 1805 it was in a 
fairly good condition and was the first house north of the brick 
house owned by Sidney Morehouse. Miss ^lary II. Reed has 
an original subscription list made in 1803 for the South Amenia 
Church, which includes his autograph subscription. 

In 180G he removed to the town of Lenox, Madison Co., 
}<. \'.. near the present village of Canastota, where he also kept 
a hotel. 

In 1802 he joined Lafayette Lodge No. 22 of Free Masons 
at Amenia, and on Nov. 23, 1814, united with Sullivan Lodge 
No. 109, of the same order, at Chittenango, N. Y. 

Tlioy had three children : 

1. ASEXETH, born May 8, 1790, married Peter Moyer in 

1810 (both of the town of Lenox). She died in 
Kingston, Canada, February 0th, 1854, w^ithout 
issue. 

2. HUMPHREY, bom Feb. 20, 1792, married Nancy Pratt 

and died at Belvidere, 111., Sept. 12, 1869. See 
seventh generation for further account. 

3. ORRIN, born July 5, 1800, married, in the town of 

Lenox, Margaret Van Alstine Dec. 12, 1824, and 
died June 18, 1875. She died Aug. 30, 1892. 
He was a calnnct maker and furniture dealer at 
Canastota. They had four children: 

i. AMANDA M. RICHARDSON, born Oct. 19, 1825, mar- 
ried Lewis Sowter Feb. 2, 1847, died May 9, 1875, leaving 
three children: 

(1) Sarah A. Sowter married Clair Spencer; their 
daughter Nellie married George E. Bacon, of Rome, N. Y. 

(2)Frank L. Sowter married Mrs. Mary A. Hol- 
lister who died in New York in 1904, where he resides. 

(3) Florence B. So^^^er married George A. Harring- 
ton, of Rome, where she died in 1903 without issue. 



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ii. CAROLINE ASElYETH RICHARDSON, bom May 7, 
1829, married William H. Harmer April 25, 1849, died at 
Kingston, Canada, May 10, 1893, leaving five children: 

(1) Margaret E. Harmer married John R. Massie, 
of Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. They have two chil- 
dren: Frederick William, married Rhoda Sharman, and 
resides at New Rochelle; Charles R. resides with his 
parents. 

(2) Alfred S. Harmer married first, Janet Ross; sec- 
ond, May J. Morris, and resides at Kingston, Ontario, 
Children : Cora Bell, Alf reda and Ruby, the last two by his 
second wife. 

(3) James C. Harmer married Emma G. Jackson, 
resides at Kingston. Children: Florence, Benjamin, 
Frank and Oarswell. 

(4) Mary Maud Harmer married Ronald A. Spence 
and resides in New York. They have one daughter, Marion 
Faith. 

(5) Edwin H. Harmer married Nellie M. Pryor, who 
died leaving no children. 

iii. MARY S. RICHARDSON, born April 6, 1833, married 
George A. Bradley Feb. 11, 1852, and died at Canastota 
May 5, 1875, leaving two children: 

(1) Elisha Bradley married and resides at San Mar- 
tine, Cal. 

(2) Carrie A. Bradley married Raymond R. Smith, 
resides in Cleveland, Ohio. 

iv. EPHRAIM B. RICHARDSON, born April 6, 1833, mar- 
ried Nettie Harris Oct. 26, 1864, and died at Canastota 
April 6, 1876. He was a furniture dealer. Their only 
child, Laura, married R. Bertrand Roantree and died at 
East Syracuse, N. Y. January 4, 1906. 



SEVENTH GENERATION. 

HUMPHREY RICHARDSON. 



jt U.MPimEY KICHAEDSOX, born Feb. 20, 1792, 
I^H probably in the Oblong- N'alley, town of Amenia, 

X A Duchess Co., N. Y. ; married Xancy, daughter of 
Stephen and Luoy (Curtis) Pratt,* Oct. 13, 1810, 
at Wampsville, two miles east of Canastota. He succeeded his 
father in the hotel, which he carried on until 1825; this hotel, 
or tavern, as it was then called, was situated about a mile 
southeast of Canastota, on the main highway betw^een Albany 
and Buffalo. In 1901 this farm was owned by J. Wesley 
Goodell. 

At the time Humphrey Richardson owned this hotel, there 
being no canal or railroad, all the freight was carried in heavy 
wagons, each drawn by thirteen horses. There ^vere regular 
stations for resting and Richardson's Tavern was one of these 
stations. Often, as many as seventy or eighty horses were kept 
over night. 

In the fall of 1825, after the Erie Canal was opened, he 
sold the farm and tavern and moved into the village of Canas- 
tota. The next spring he and his brother-in-law, Leonard Van- 
Alstine, went to Chautauqua Co., X. Y., where he purchased a 
large farm in an unbroken forest two miles north of Panama. 
In ]\Iay, 1827, he moved his family there. This farm was 
subsequently owned by Mr. Dean, as shown by the map of Chau- 
tauqua County, published in 1854. 

About 1829 he removed to the adjoining fann south, oppo- 
site the Luther Jennings place. Here he resided for about 
nine years, when he sold his fann and bought the saw and grist 

♦Stephen Pratt, son of Daniel and Sarah (Nash), was born in 
Braintree, Mass., Dec. 20, 1760, and married Lucy Curtis, daughter of 
.Joseph and Betty, granddaughter of Moses and Dorothy (Ashley), 
and great-granddaughter of Theophilus and Hannah (Paine). He 
and his father-in-law served in the Revolution from Braintree, and he 
was again in the service during the War of 1812. 

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mills in upper Panama. He carried on these mills for about 
three years, when he sold them and purchased what was called 
the Wliipple Farm, where he resided until 1845, then sold it to 
Darius Knapp. About ten years before this he took a trip 
down the Ohio River to Cairo and up the Mississippi, return- 
ing home through northern Illinois, and stopping at Chicago, 
then a small place. 

He was so pleased with the West that he removed in 1845 
to McHenry Co., 111., and bought a farm three miles south of 
Marengo. Here he resided until 1865, when he purchased an- 
other farm near Belvidere and moved there with his son Orrin, 
where he died Sept. 12, 1869, his wife Jan. 11, 1870. 

They were devout members of the Baptist Church. Tie 
was a man of about luedium height and favored with a strong 
physique and great powers of endurance. He took compara- 
tively little interest in public affairs, but thoroughly enjoyed 
manual labor. 

Their ten children were: 

1. HUMPHREY, son of Humphrey and I^ancy (Pratt) 
Richardson, born Nov. 10, 1811, married Julia 
daughter of Palmer and ISTaomi Cross, Jan. 10, 
1832, and died near Panama, Nov. 16, 1860. 
He was a well-to-do farmer and highly respected. 
They had two children : 

i. PALMER B., born Nov. 4, 1833, married Martha Ploss, 
Aug. 28, 1853, and died near Panama, Oct. 27, 1889. 
His widow is still living. Their four children were : 

(1) Frank Delos, born Oct. 25, 1855, married Amy 
E. Rexford, May 11, 1877. Their daughter Lina Alice, 
born April 27, 1885, married Arthur J. McGraw, Feb. 4, 
1903. 

(2) Charles Byron, barn May 7, 1858, married 
Emma E. Cook, Dec. 29, 1879, and had five children: 
Edna M., Jime 2, 1881 ; Carrie M., April 3, 1886 ; Lavern, 
Jan. 26, 1888; Fred, Oct. 16, 1889; Ervin, Jan. 1, 1896, 
died Oct. 28, 1898. 



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(3) Burt Himiplirev, born Jan. 23, 1867, married 
Cora M. Gere, Sept. 7, 1887, and died Sept. 13, 1891. 
Their children are: Alice L., born Anu'. 21, ISSO, and 
Blanche E., Dec. 13, 1801. 

(4) Lee, born Sept. 5, 1873, married Gertnide Price, 
Dec. 14, 1891, and had LeEoy Palmer, Aug. 20, 1894; 
Burt Harold, Oct. 3, 1897 ; Earl James, Aug. 31, 1900, 
and Flovd Melvin, June 29, 1902. 

ii. HUMPHREY BYROX, born Sept. 27, 1836, married 
first Ellen J. Lucas, May 3, 1862, who died April 24, 
1876, and second Mrs. Hephzibah (Meeks) Gunton, Oct. 
5, 1881. He died Aug. 26, 1895, leaving three children: 

(1) Bertlia Calista, born April 6, 1863, married 
Levi Van Valkenburg, July 4, 1885, and has jSTellie May, 
born Aug. 22, 1887, and Ralpli Arthur, Aug. 13, 1889. ' 

(2) Arthur Leland, born Feb. 8, 1872, married 
Lottie Orrilla Graves, Dec. 22, 1897. 

(3) Jay Hugh, born Feb. 11, 1876, unmarried. 

2. CLARK PRATT, son of Humphrey and Nancy (Pratt) 

Richardson, was born July 23, 1814, married 

four times and died at Garnett, Kansas, iVug. 17, 

1889. He married first Betsy Rice in 1830, and 

she died Feb. 28, 1844, leaving four children. 

He married second Mary Ann Page, a widow 

with four daughters, and by her had one daughter. After her 

birth he removed to Illinois with the four children by his first 

Avife, but his wife refused to go with him. He never saw her 

again and after a few ^^ears she removed Avith her children to 

Michigan, where she died many years later. 

He married third Mrs. Permelia Avery, at Coral, ]\Ic- 
Henry Co., TIL, Deo. 7, 1847, resided on a farm about three 
miles from jMarengo until about 1870, when he removed to 
Garaett, where his wife died Oct. 7, 1879. He married fourth 
Mrs. ]rarriet M. Cook, of Sandwich, III, Oct. 23, 1880. His 
five children were: 

i. SARAH, l)orn near Panama, X. Y., May 4, 1837, married 
Edy Mulcahie in McIIenry Co., 111., and died Oct. 8, 1862, 



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leaving three cliildren. Her husband was a Union soldier 
in the Civil War and died May 30, 1884. Their children 
were: 

(1) Mary, bom l^ov. 16, 1855, married Reuben 
Lewis, resides at Sac City, Iowa, and has Grace and 
Charles. 

(2) Clark Thomas, born May 16, 1858, brought up 
by his grandfather Richardson and his name changed to 
Clark T. Richardson. He married Emma Woods, has 
no children, resides at Garnett, and is a la^vyer and editor 
of the Eagle-Plaindealer. 

(3) Byron George, born Aug. 30, 1860, adopted hy 
his mother's sister Mary and her husband, and name 
changed to Bvron G. Burbank. He is a lawver and re- 
sides in Omaha, Neb. He married Clara E. Merrill, I^ov. 
26, 1881, and has Byron M., born Sept. 15, 1886, and 
Wayne, July 26, 1893. 

ii. STEPHEN H., born July 3, 1839, married Clarinda 
Benlard, May 15, 1862, resides in Garnett and has no 
children. 

iii. MARY, born in 1841, married George Burbank, and died 
"without issue. 

iv. LAURA, born in 1843, died unmarried in 1864. 

V. ADELAIDE (daughter by second wife), born near 
Panama, July 23, 1845, married Martin Gilbert Haw- 
ley, July 27, 1862, resides at Garnett. They had six 
sons, one of which died young. The others are Walter,. 
Jay, Eugene, Ely and Stephen; in 1901 they resided at 
Sugar Valley, Anderson County, Kansas. 

3. NANCY MARGARET, daughter of Humphrey and 
Nancy (Pratt) Richardson, born April 17, 
1816, married first, Ira Williams, near Panama, 
Aug. 10, 1834; second, Emory O. Thompson, 
Dec. 2, 1882, and died at Mason City, Iowa, 
Feb. 23, 1901. Ira Williams, her first hus- 
band, was bom in Cortland Co., N. Y., Nov. 25, 1807, and 



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died in Lincoln to^raship, Iowa, May 2, 1877. *He was the 
father of her children. Thev removed from the town of Har- 
mony, Chautaiiqna Co., to Belvidere, Ilh, about 1840, and 
from there to Iowa in 18,5.5. He served as a Union soklier 
during- the Civil War. At the time of her death the Mason City 
Citizen published a lengthy sketch of her life, from wliich a 
brief quotation is made : 

"Ira Williams moved from McHenry County, 111., in June, 1855, 
with his wife and five children. He pre-empted 80 acres of govern- 
ment land in section 17, Palls Township. He built a sod house cov- 
ered it over with hay, and lived in it till fall when he built a log 
house. Flour was $7 per hundred and other necessaries of life pro- 
portionately high, so it was only a short time before his means were 
exhausted and the family reduced to want. But by dint of working, 
selling a cow, and economy, they made out to keep soul and body to- 
gether until their sod corn grew to roasting ears, when they would 
grate it on a tin grater and make bread of it, boil it as green corn or 
shell it and make hominy, there being no mill to grind it. In this way 
they struggled through the winter. In the spring they sold their claim 
and removed to Lincoln Township, six miles northwest of Mason City, 
on the Lime Creek where they secured 120 acres of prairie land. 

It was on Dec. 22, 1856, that her two boys, Reuben and David, 
had their fearful experience in the snow storm near the Pedalty set- 
tlement, when they came near to losing their lives. It was then that 
David, who is now a rich and retired farmer living near Manly, had 
both feet frozen so that he has gone through life with half feet, and 
Reuben lost one foot entirely, all but the heel of the other, and all of 
the fingers of one hand. 

It was through hardships like these that the mother raised her 
family of eight children, and brought them up worthy and forehanded 
men and women. Mrs. Thompson was a woman of noble mould. She 
possessed untiring energy, courage, capacity to overcome difficulties. 
She was first a member of the Baptist and afterward of the Christian 
Church, and a devoted christian woman." 

They had nine chihlrcn, as follows: 

i. CYNTHIA, bom in Harmony, Ohatauqua Co., N. Y., 
May 11, 1835, married George A. Raymond, Jnly 3, 
1853, and died at Rock Falls, Iowa, Sept. 21, 1800. She 
was a devout member of the l^aptist Church. Her two 
children were: 

(1) Ella Isadore, born May 7, 1854, married George 
H. Reed, April 20, 1873, and had Martha E., Dec. 6, 



*He was the son of Ira and Keturah (Crane) Williams, sixth in 
descent from Matthew of Weathersfield, Jasper Crane of New Haven 
and Newark, (N. J.) and Gov. Robert Treat. Hon. Sherman Williams 
of Chautauqua Co. and New York City is his nephew. 



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1876; Charles George Allen, Dec. 6, 1879; and Lillie 
Cynthia, Jnly 18, 1882. 

(2) Ira M., born Feb. 22, 1856, married Ella M. 
Baker Oct. 23, 1878, and had Minnie 1^., Jan. 17, 1880 ; 
Daisy D., Sept. 13, 1882, and William A., March 13, 

1884. 

ii. KEUBEisr, born Nov. 13, 1836, married Sarah E. 
Cramb Dec. 23, 1865, and died in October, 1898, at 
Trosky, Minn. They had three children : 

(1) Clara Eldora, born Kov. 2, 1867, married 
Charles Henry Judd, Oct. 17, 1882, and had Reuben 
Franklyn, Jan. 4, 1884; William Henry, Dec. 10, 1886, 
and Han-y Lee, Feb. 14, 1889, who died March 7, 1889. 

(2) Ida Emma, born March 22, 1871, married i^el- 
son R. Greeley Dec. 15, 1885. 

(3) Charles Jndd, date of birth imknown. 

iii. DAVID, born Jnne 22, 1839, died Jan. 15, 1843. 

iv. ELLEN D., born April 23, 1841, married Timothy M. 
Raymond Sept. 24, 1860, and resides at Opeto, Kansas. 
They had two chik^^-f'n: 

(1) Timothy C, born July 18, 1861, and Harold 
A., July 31, 1870. 
V. DAVID, born March 11, 1843, married Christena, sister 
of Prof. Samuel W. Beyer, Oct. 29, 1873. He is a 
wealthy retired farmer, and resides at Manly, Iowa. They 
have had six children : 

(1) Edith Ann, born Aug. 1, 1874, married Vern 
L. Wiser May 6, 1896, and had Vern LeRoy Aug. 5, 1898, 
and Ray Beyer Oct. 5, 1901. 

(2) Ira Abraham, born Dec. 25, 1876, is a graduate 
of the Iowa State College, and is an instructor there in 
geology and mining engineering. In 1904 he received a 
degTee from Columbia University, New York, where he 
had pursued a course of study. 

(3) Nancy May, born Aug. 2, 1878, married Charles 
Wesley Van Note, Oct. 29, 1900. 



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(4) Milo Beyer, born Sept. 15, 1882, is a civil en- 
gineer and a graduate of the Iowa State College. 

(5) Lulu Grace, born July 8, 1886, died in 1890. 
(6)Ernest Clifford, born Jan. 28, 1892. 

vi. LEMUEL, born Xov. l-t, 1845, lived with his uncle Milo 
from his fourth to his ninth year; and served in the Civil 
War in Company B, 32nd Iowa Regiment. He married 
Charity A. Knapp ISTov. 14, 1869, and resides at Canton, 
Wis. They have three children: 

(1) Bona, born Xov. 20, 1871, married Jerry Jar- 
man, May 8, 1891, resides at Xowlin, S. D., and has one 
daughter, Erie E., born in 1898. 

(2) Minnie E., born Feb. 25, 1881, married Wilmer 

D. ISTelson June 12, 1901 ; resides at Pierre, S. D., and 
has no children. 

(3) Milo D., born March 24, 1884, resides at Pierre, 
S. D., unmarried. 

vii. MABY K., born Jan. 8, 1848, married Albert L. Towne, 
of Silver Lake, Worth County, Iowa, Feb. 12, 1866, and 
died Feb. 9, 1905. They had eight children : 

(1) Frank L., born Fob. 25, 1867, married and has 
seven children. 

(2) Jane E., born Nov. 30, 1868, married and has 
three children. 

(3) John E., born July 19, 1870, married and has 
three children. 

(4) Nettie M., born March 6, 1873, married and has 
three sons. 

(5) Julia E., born June 21, 1875, married and has 
one son, 

(6) jMaiy E., born Feb. 24, 1882. 

(7) Grover, born May 16, 1887, died Dec. 8, 1903. 

(8) Alice, born July 7, 1889. 

viii. GILBERT A., born Aug. 5, 1850, married first Amanda 

E. McXelley, Feb. 22, 1874, who died Sept. 11, 1875. He 



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married second Edna R. Harding, Aug. 3, 1879, and died 
Oct. 4, 1902. He had seven children, and his widow 
resides with six of the children at Vegreville, Alberta, 
N. W. T. Their children ^\^re: 

(1) Charles F., born May 10, 1880. 

(2) Euseba, born April 25, 1884. 

(3) James Ira, born Sept. 25, 1885. 

(4) Louisa M., born May 5, 1890. 

(5) Edna Ethel, born Sept. 25, 1893. 

(6) Gilbert L., born Jnly 15, 1895. 

(7) Caryl E., born Feb. 19, 1898, died April 29, 
1902. 

ix. FRANK, born Aug. 8, 1852, died Aug. 5, 1880. 

4. MILO, son of Humphrey and Nancy (Pratt) Richardson, 

born March 27, 1818, died July 18, 1S20. 

5. MILO AMOS, son of Humphrey and Nancy (Pratt) 

Richardson, born June 2, 1820. See 8th gen- 
eration for full account. 

6. IRA HUMPHREY, son of LIumphrey and Nancy (Pratt) 

Richardson, was born April 10, 1822, and died 

at Ortonville, Minn., Sept. 5, 1901. During his 

boyhood he lived for a number of years with his 

uncle Orrin at Canastota, and attended school, 

which gave him better advantages for obtaining 

an education than any of his brothers or sisters. He learned 

the tailor's trade and worked at it for a few years, and after 

that he studied medicine, probably with some local physician. 

He resided for a number of years at Jordon, N. Y. 

The reminiscences of his sister Llarriet show that her son 
Orrin died in March, 1851, while she was on a visit to her 
brother Dr. Richardson, who was living in Oswego Co. ; also 
that the child was buried about three miles from Fulton, He 
was married on Sept. 7, 1843, to Lydia Mary Barnes, but it is 
not known where they were married ; probably it was at Jordon. 



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After leaving Xew York state lie resided a short time in Il- 
linois and then, about 1857, settled in Minnesota. In Aug., 
1860, he was received as a minister by the conference of the 
]\lethodist Episcopal Church, held at lied Wing, Minn., and 
that 3'ear was assigned to the church at Wasioja. During the 
next twenty vears he was an active minister in Minnesota and 
northern Iowa. 

His first wife was born Dec. 24, 1823, and died Aug. 12, 
1867. On May 14, 1868, he married Electa ^^^liteley, at 
Fayette, Iowa, who was born Feb. 22, 1844. He had twelve 
children, five by his first wife and seven by the second. 

i. EMMIT BAEXES, born Dec. 8, 1844, died Jan. 18, 
1866. He served as a soldier in the Civil War for three 
years with a Minnesota regiment, and his death was caused 
by disease contracted in the service. 

ii. OKRIX ADELBERT, born Aug. 27, 1846, died April 
21, 1848. 

iii. ORRIX ADELBERT, born May 22, 1851, died Sept. 4, 
1855. 

iv. EVA BELL, born XTov. 26, 1855, died Oct. 2, 1856. 

V. XETTIE BELL, bom Jan. 28, 1860, married Wayne 
Schenck, May, 1881, residence Junction City, Oregon. 
She was a school teacher for a nmnber of years. 

vi. LYDIA MARY, born March 10, 1869, died Dec. 28, 

1872. 

vii. PAUL, born and died July 20, 1873. 

viii. SAMUEL EARL, born Jmie 12, 1874, died Sept. 15, 
1875. 

ix. RUTH, born May 1, 1877, married Curtis C. Sweigle, 
May 1, 1897, and died in 1899, leaving a daughter Irene, 
l>om in 1899. 

X. GRACE, born Xov. 10, 1878, died April 17, 1879. 

xi. SETH WHITELEY, born Feb. 3, 1880, is a lawyer and 
resides at Fargo, X. D., where he is Assistant State's At- 
torney. 



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xii. NELLIE EUNICE, born Marcli 2, 1884, is a student in 
the State Normal Sdiool at Cheney, Washington. 

7. ORRIN, son of Humphrey and Nancy (Pratt) Richard- 
son, bom Feb. 24, 1824, married Roselle, daugh- 
ter of Festus and Permelia (Avery) Avery, at 
Riley, 111., Dec. 14, 1848. Her mother married 
Clark P. Richardson for her second husband. 
He resided with his father at Marengo and Bel- 
videre and after his death had his property, the most of which 
he lost through unfortunate investments. About 1873 he re- 
moved to Garnett, Kansas, and in 1895 to Wharton, Texas, 
where he died April 4, 1903. His widow is still living with 
her daughter, Mrs. Page, at AVliarton. He was held in high 
esteem by all who knew him, and for forty-five years was a 
devout member of the Baptist Church. After his death the 
Wharton Eagle published a lengthy tribute to his memory, from 
which the following is taken: "During all the years that Mr. 
Richardson walked up and dovm among the people of Wliarton 
there were none to question the sincerity of his profession, the 
earnestness of his friendship, or the stainlessness of his char- 
acter." 

They had five children : 

i. CHARLES LEROY, born July 9, 1852, married Nancy 
Wright and died, after 1880, leaving two children: 

(1) Essie Roselle, born Oct. 1, 1877. 

(2) Louie, born Dec. 25, 1880. (Both of these re- 
side at Rockford, 111.) 

ii. IRA, born Oct. 31, 1853, married Betsey Ann Wilson, 
Feb. 12, 1874, who was born July 10, 1855. They reside 
at Loyalton, Cal., and have had six children: 

(1) Nora Anneta, born Jan. 31, 1875, died March 4, 
1875. 

(2) George Judson, born May 14, 1876. 

(3) Amy Bell, born July 30, 1878, married Stephen 
A. Converse, March 1, 1903, and had Charles Leslie Con- 
verse, Dec. 20, 1903. 



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(4) Fred Leslie, born April 7, 1884, died June 3, 
1885. 

(5) Ina May, born Xov. 3, 1886. 

(6) Lena Luella, bom Sept. 29, 1891. 

iii. CLAEA LEXOEA, born May 16, 1856, married William 
H. Wilson April 22, 1873, and resides at Taylor, Texas. 
Their three children are : 

(1) Hattie Eoselle, born April 10, 1874. 

(2) Leota Eva, born Aug. 11, 1876. 

(3) William Herbert, born Nov. 4, 1885. 

iv. EVA BELL, born Jan. 0, 1858, married Frank E. Page 
May 13, 1877. They reside at Wharton, and have one 
daughter, Nellie Eoselle, born March 19, 1878, married 
June 4, 1898, to Oapt. A. D. Sparkman. Capt. Spark- 
man served in the Spanish- American War; he was form- 
erly a laAwer, but is now a Baptist minister. They have 
had two children: Marriene Eoselle, bom Aug. 25, 1901, 
and John Page Oct. 17, 1903. 

OEEIN JUDSON, born Jan. 11, 1860, married Carrie 
Blankfell Sept. 15, 1881, and resides at Lewisville, Ind. 



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8. DAVID DANIEL, son of Humphrey and Nancy (Pratt) 

Eichardson, was bom March 27, 1826. He went 

to Illinois with his parents in 1845 and for some 

time was employed as a driver of one of the 

big four-horse coaches that ran between Chicago 

and other large towns. He married first, Jane 

Shaw, at Marengo, 111., July 3, 1848. Soon after this he went 

over the plains to California, but soon returned for his family 

and permanently settled there. He probably lived first in 

Sacramento, and is said to have been a superintendent of one 

of the overland stage lines. After this he became a fanner 

and resided near Chico, where his wife died Feb. 19, 1886. 

He married second, Mrs. Harriet Emeline Kersey. He died 

Sept. 9. 1904. The following quotation is taken from his 



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obituary notice in the Chico Eecord: "Death has claimed an- 
other pioneer of Butte County in the person of D. D. Richard- 
son, who died yesterday at his home a few miles north of Chico. 
As noted in yesterday's Record, Mr. Richardson was stricken 
with paralysis and from the first but little hope was enter- 
tained of his recovery. * * * 

Deceased was one of the oldest residents of the vicinity 
of Chico, where he had engaged in fanning for many years 
and where he had reared his family. * * * jjg ^^s a good 
citizen and respected man, and his passing marked the end of 
a long and useful life." 

They had six children : 

i. AMAXDA, born in McHenry Co., 111., Jan. 27, 1850, 
married Jefferson A. Walker Feb. 18, 1868. They have 
four children: 

(1) Fred Everett, born in 1868, married and resides 
in Nimshew. 

(2) Charles Ashley, born in 1873, married and re- 
sides in White Pine Co., Nevada, where he has been Dis- 
trict Attorney. 

(3) Barton Egbert, born in 1879. 

(4) Edna May, born in 1882. 

ii. FRAXK, born May 1, 1852, married Elizabeth Moore, 
and has been an actor for many years. They have one 
son, Clarence, born in June, 1879. 

iii. ADELLA, born May 20, 1857. 

iv. WESLEY LEE, born Feb. 11, 1860, died Dec. 21, 1863. 
v. NELLIE, born May 19, 1864, married Frank Copple 
and has two sons. 

vi. CHARLES WESLEY, born Jan. 3, 1867, married and 
resides at Nimshew. They have no children. 

9. HARRIET ELIZABETH, daughter of Humphrey and 
Nancy (Pratt) Richardson, born near Panama, 



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:N'. Y., July 8, 1830, married James X. Bates 

April 5, 1846, and settled on Loon Oreek prairie 

in the town of Eiley, McHenry Co., 111. They 

lived first in a log ca])in, fourteen feet square, 

a mile from the nearest house, and here her first child was 

born. The wolves often made the nights hideous with their 

howling and prairie fires threatened the destruction of what 

little they had. In 1850 her husband went to California with 

her brothers Clark and Orrin and was gone a year. After his 

return the}' settled on a farm near her father's, where she died 

May 21, 1890. She was a Avorthy Christian woman. Her 

mother and many of her mother's family w^ere unusually stout, 

but she was more so than any of her relatives, weighing at 

times 300 pounds. They had five children : 

i. ADELIA, born June 22, 184Y, married first, Reuben 
Harris Sept. 12, 1865, and second, James M. Quigley. 
She died in Chicago Sept. 18, 1902. Her six children 
w^ere all by her first husband : 

(1) James Harvey, born Feb. 4, 1863 (date of death 
unknowm). 

(2) Perlie Gertrude, born April 15, died Oct. 21, 
1866. 

(3) Perry, born July 1, 1869, seiwed in the Spanish- 
American War in a Pennsylvania regiment. 

(4) Marcus, born Oct. 31, 1871 (date of death un- 
known ) . 

(5) Harriet Bates, bom July 1, 1872, married 
Frank J. Sheller and resides in Chicago. 

(6) Ada Gertrude, born June 30, 1881, is immar- 
ried. 

ii. ORRIN GAILARD, born April 2, 1849, died March 11, 
1851. 

iii. MARCUS JAMES, born May 6, 1853, married Addie E. 
Bates, his cousin, Dec. 23, 1875, resides near Marengo, 
and has had one child, James J., who was bom May 2 and 
died July 9, 1882. 



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iv. GEORGE NELSON, born Feb. 21, 1863, married Nina 
Teneyck, Aug. 25, 1883, and resides near Marengo. Chil- 
dren: 

(1) George Andrew, born Feb. 14, 1885. 

(2) Jennie, born Aug. 25, 1888. 

(3) Hazel, born June 28, 1890. 

V. LIBBIE, born Jan. 8, 1869, married Thomas Beam, re- 
sides at Marengo, and has no children. 

10. SOPHIA NxiNCY, daughter of Humphrey and Nancy 
(Pratt) Richardson, born July 24, 1833, mar- 
ried Joel Heath, Feb. 16, 1851, and resided at 
Broadhead, Wis. He served as a Union soldier 
in the Civil War. She died May 12, 1900, and 
he Nov. 25, of the same year, age 72 years. 
They had two sons : 
1. FREEMONT, bom July 1, 1858, married Nellie A. Phil- 
brick, March 9, 1879, and resides at Broadhead. Chil- 
dren: 

(1) Elmer F., born July 6, 1881. 

(2) Albert Freemont, born Nov. 19, 1887, died Oct. 
8, 1891. 

(3) Forrest Byron, born Aug. 23, 1890. 

(4) Mabel Adaline, born April 25, 1895. 

ii. LUTHER, born Sept. 21, 1860, died unmarried April 24, 

1892. 



EIGHTH GENERATION. 

MILO A. RICHARDSON. 



MILO AMOS RICHARDSON, son of Ilumplirey and 
Xancy (Pratt) Richardson, was born near Canas- 
tota, K Y., June 2, 1820. When his parents re- 
moved to Chautauqua County he was seven years 
of age. 

His school advantages were very limited, which was a mis- 
fortune, as his natural genius for invention lacked only the 
force of a trained mind. He was well schooled, however, in 
experiences which later generations know little about — the liiwd- 
ships of pioneer life. 

He married, January 19, 1843, Laura Louisa, daughter of 
Isaac and Mercy E. (Reynolds) Willard,* early settlers of 
Sherman; she was born at Geneseo, IST. Y., May 20, 1824. In 
1845 he moved to Illinois, w^here for a few years he followed 
different occupations. He drove one of the large stages be- 
tween Chicago and Elgin; lie had formerly driven between 
Jamestown and Warren, becoming an expert driver of four- 
horse teams. ■ He built a small house on his father's farm near 



*Isaac Willard, son of Julius and Susanna (Trask) and grandson 
of Daniel and Anna (Marvin), was born at Zoar, Mass., May 6, 1798. 
He was sixth in descent from Major Simon and Mary (Dunster) Wil- 
lard of Concord, Mass. 

Major Simon Willard, son of Richard and Margery (Humphrie), 
was born in County Kent, England, in 1605 and was the progenitor of 
the well-known Willard family. His wife was the sister or the niece 
of President Dunster of Harvard College. 

Susanna Trask was the daughter of Isaac and Ruth (Colton), 
granddaughter of Josiah and Anna (Putnam) and presumably a de- 
scendant of Osmond of Beverly. 

Isaac Trask was a Revolutionary soldier from Monson and his 
brother's grandson Eliphalet Trask was Lieutenant Governor of Massa- 
chusetts during the three terms of Gov. (General) Banks. 

Anna Putnam was the daughter of Isaac, a first cousin of Gen. 
Israel Putnam. 

Anna Marvin, daughter of Nathan and Hannah (Betts) was fifth 
in descent from Matthew Marvin of Norwalk. 

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Ill 

Marengo, resided there for about four years, and then settled 
at Lena, where he lived five years, mitil the fall of 1854, when 
he returned to Chautauqua County, X. Y. 

AMiile living at Lena he learned to take daguerrotype pic- 
tures and became a traveling artist with his brother-in-law, 
Philo Huntley. They had galleries for a few weeks or months 
at a time at Freeport, Belvidere and Lena, 111., and at Iowa 
City, Cedar Eapids, Keokiik, and other to^^ms in Iowa. At 
Fairfield, Iowa, he took the pictures of a group of Indian chiefs, 
and as they were the first they had ever seen, it filled them with 
great wonder and delight. 

After his return from Illinois he had a picture gallery for 
about a year at Panama, then sold out the business and moved 
to Waits Corners, in the to-wii of Sherman, and in 1860 to 
Sherman village. He and his wife were members of the Bap- 
tist church at Panama, as their parents were, and at Waits 
Corners they with their son joined the Free- Will Baptist 
Church. 

He was a hard worker and fanatically temperate, but for 
■many years was poor, as so much of his time went for the 
puljlic good or for carrying out new ideas which brought no 
financial return. He had a very active mind that was con- 
stantly planning some new invention or improvement, and a 
temperament so sanguine that he w^ould spend his last dollar 
to carry out his plans. 

After he moved to Sherman, in 1860, the late Wm. Heni'v 

7 7 V 

Keeler became interested in his inventions and furnished the 
money to obtain his first patents, of which he secured about 
thirty, a few proving valuable. The most successful were the 
Cream Pump, 1862 (used in butter-making). Washing ]\Ia- 
chine, 1865; ^Yliite Bronze Monmnents, 1874, and the Sand 
Blast process for sharpening and finishing files, 1878. These 
are all, except the first, still manufactured and extensively used. 
He took a great interest in public improvements and es- 
pecially in the building of the Cross Cut Railroad from Brocton 
on Lake Erie over the Chautauqua hills to Corry, Pa. The 
first survey for the road through the town was unsatisfactory 
and he voluntarily spent a number of weeks in tracing another 
line, Avhere the road was built. He warmly advocated the erec- 



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tion of the Union School building and was a member of the 
Board of Education when he removed from Sherman in 1873. 

He resided for a few years at Paterson, IST. J., and Bridge- 
port, Conn,, and was engaged in perfecting the manufacture of 
the "White Bronze Monuments.* In 1881 he came to New 
York City and resided with his son until his death, July 16, 
1900. His wife survived him and died Aug. 15, 1902. 

They had four children: 

1. MARVIN", bom and died Feb. 22, 1845. 

2. EOSELL L., bom April 28, 1850. See next page for full 

account 

3. FRANCE, born Nov. 26, 1852, died Oct. 7, 1854. 

4. FRANCE AMOS, born Dec. 16, 1854, died Oct. 21, 1860 

*See "Orcutt's History" of Stratford and Bridgeport, Vol. 2—813. 
Also "Centennial History" of Chautauqua County, Vol. 2 — 1127. 



NINTH GENERATION. 

ROSELL L. RICHARDSON. 



ROSELL LEWELLYN RICHAEDSON was born in 
the town of Lena, Stephenson Co., 111., April 28, 
1M50. When twelve years of age he began working 
ontside of school honrs as a clerk in the postoffice 
and store of Elmore My rick at Sherman, IST. Y., and after Mr. 
Myrick was succeeded in business by Thorp & Coveney he re- 
mained with them until 1867, when he entered the employ of 
E. Sperry & Co., who had a large hardware store. 

During the three years in Avhich he was employed in this 
store he worked part of the time in their shop, where a great 
variety of tin and iron work was done. His lodgings were in 
the store, with William H. Sperry, one of the firm, and he 
boarded at his home. 

William H. Sperry was an upright Christian young man and 
any boy who has such an associate from his seventeenth tn his 
twentieth vear is most fortunate. 

In 1870 he attended Eastman's Business College at Pough- 
keepsie for a few months and then returned to Sherman and 
began the study of law- in a la^wyer's office. In 1871 he came to 
'New York to continue his law studies at Columbia College, 
where he graduated in 1876 with the degree of Bachelor of 
Laws. After being admitted to the bar in ISTew York he prac- 
ticed his profession for about a year and a half, bnt without 
much pecuniary success. Before leaving Chautauqua County 
he became intimately acquainted with Governor Fenton, who 
took a warm interest in him and assisted him to pursue his 
studies. 

In 1878, through Governor Eenton's influence, he secured 
an appointment in the New York Custom House, intending at 
the time to return in a year or two to the practice of law. 

He continued there, however, for twelve years, when he 
resigned to go into the manufacture of '^The Baby Tender," of 

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which he and his father were the joint inventors. Since then 
he has been engaged in this business. 

He married first Clara Eugenia, daughter of Samuel P. 
and "Marvett F. (Lyon) Hanford,* at Ii*ving, Chautauqua C<>., 
K v., Jan. 6, 1874. She died in New York, Dec. 4, 1895, and 



*THE HANFORD FAMILY. 

1. Rev. THOMAS HANFORD, son of Jeffry and Eglin (Hatherly), was 
born at Fremington (near Barnstable), Devonshire, England, in 
1623. She was sister to the celebrated Timothy Hatherly of Ply- 
mouth colony. Mr. Hanford was the first minister at Norwalk, 
Conn., and continued in charge of the church for forty-one years, 
until his death in 1693. He married first Hannah Newbury who 
died without issue, second Mary daughter of Richard Miles and 
widow of Jonathan Ince the New Haven scholar. They had ten 
children. 

2. C.\PT. SAMUEL HANFORD, born April 5, 1674, married Isabell 
Haynes and died Feb. 2, 1751. He was a deputy to the General 
Court, from Norwalk, for thirteen years. 

3. HAYNES HANFORD, born in 1716, married Elizabeth, daughter of 
Capt. Joseph Ketcham of Fairfield, and died April 18, 1798. 

4. JOSEPH HANFORD, born 1742, married first Mrs. Abigail Bradley 
and second Sarah Williams, daughter of Jonas and Sarah (Fleet) 
of Huntington, L. I. He was a royalist at the time of the Revolu- 
tion and his estate was confiscated by the General Court in 1791. 

5. Lieut. JOHN W. HANFORD, son of the above by his second wife, 
was born July 4, 1784, married Polly Pearsall, and died at Irving, 
N. Y., Jan. 19, 1866. He was a Lieut, in the War of 1812. 

His wife, the daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Wakemen) Pearsall, 
was sixth in descent from Capt. John Underbill the noted Indian 
fighter and author of "News from America." 

Rachel Wakeman, daughter of Gideon who graduated at Yale in 
1759 and married Ann Adams, was fifth in descent from Rev. Samuel 
Wakeman, who married Hannah, daughter of Deputy Governor 
Stephen Goodyear. Gideon Wakeman was fifth in descent from 
Joseph Hawley who graduated at Harvard in 1674 and who married 
Lydia daughter of the brave Capt. Samuel Marshall killed in the 
Great Swamp Fight, 1675. 

6. SAMUEL P. HANFORD, born at Westport, Aug. 13, 1812, died at 
Irving, July 2, 1895. Maryett F. Lyon, his wife, daughter of Alfred 
Child and Lucippa (Wight), was born at Attica, N. Y., March 24, 
1817 and died Aug. 13, 1892; she was seventh in descent from Wil- 
liam and Sarah (Ruggles) Lyon of Roxbury, Mass. Her grand- 
fath-^rs Ethel Bert Child Lyon and Capt. Nathan Wight and great 
grandfather. Col. James Metcalf were Revolutionary soldiers from 
Mass., and her second cousin. General Nathaniel Lyon, was a dis- 
tinguished hero in the Civil War. 

Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse was her father's second cousin. 



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he married second Mabel, daughter of S. Delevan and Laura 
D. (Strong) Adams,* at Sherman, Chautauqua Co., X. V., 
Jan. 12, 1897. He has had six children, five by his first wife 
and one by the second : 

1. DE LANCE Y, bom at Irving, Sept. 5, 1876, died at West 

Stratford (now Bridgeport), Conn., Sept. 2G, 

1877. 

2. NIX A MAY, twin with the above, born Sept. 5, 1876, died 

in New York, Dec. 17, 1895. 

3. GEACE FLOREX^CE, born in Xew York, Oct. 2, 1879, 

died there X^ov. 6, 1880. 

4. FEX^TOX WIXTIIROP, born in X^ew York, Aug. 11, 

1881, died at Mansfield, Penn. (Xonnal 
School), Dec. 18, 1898. 

5. HAROLD HANFORD, born in X^ew York, June 25, 1SS8. 

AdraitieU to Columbia University Sept. 1906. 

6. WARD ADAMS, born in Xew York, Feb. 12, 1898. 

*THE ADAMS FAMILY. 

1. HENRY ADAMS came to New England in 1632 or 1633 and settled 
at Braintree (now Quincy). President John Adams erected a mon- 
ument there to his memory, at which time he supposed that the 
family came from Devonshire. 

John Quincy Adams became satisfied that his father was mis- 
taken in this. The so-called "Ap Adam Pedigree" has long been 
discredited. Recent discoveries indicate that Henry Adams came 
probably from Kingweston, Somersetshire. 

2. Lieut. THOMAS ADAMS, born in England, 1612, married Mary 
(Blackmore?). He was a member of the General Court and witli 
his brother Samuel erected mills where the City of Lowell now 
stands. 

Rebecca, daughter of Samuel married John Waldo; Ralph Waldo 
Emerson was one of their descendants. 

3. JONATHAN ADAMS, born at Concord, Mass., Jan. 6, 1646, married 
Leah, daughter of Francis and Rose Gould, and died at Chelmsford 
Nov. 25, 1712. 

4. DAVID ADAMS, born March 29, 1699, married, in Canterbury, Conn., 
Dorcas Paine, daughter of Elisha and Rebecca (Doane) and grand- 
daughter of Thomas and Mary (Snow). Mary Snow was the daugh- 
ter of Nicholas, and the granddaughter of Stephen Hopkins of the 
Mayflower. Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of In- 
dependence, and John Howard Payne, author of "Home Sweet 
Home," belong to this family. 



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LEVI ADAMS, baptized Nov. 18, 1728, married Margaret Perkins 

and served with three of his sons in the Revolution. He died at 

Hardwick, N. Y., 1816. 

Sergt. LEVI ADAMS was born at Oswego Village (now Quaker 

City), town of Unionvale, Duchess Co., N. Y., Feb. 14, 1754. He 

served in the Revolution from Connecticut and Vermont and was a 

pensioner when he died at Ripley, N. Y., Dec. 26, 1833. He married 

Hannah Pettingill. 

HENRY ADAMS, born at Milford, N. Y., .lune 17, 1796, married 

Louisa, daughter of Eliphaz Hibbard and Ruth (Bowe) Pride and 

died Oct. 15, 1882. . 

She was seventh in descent from John Pride of Salem and sixth 
from Alexander Bowe of Middletown. 

S. DELAVAN ADAMS, born in Ripley, May 25, 1831, died in Sher- 
man, May 20, 1900. His wife Laura Davis Strong, daughter of 
Capt. Walter and Nancy (Sheldon), was born at Nettle Hill, town 
of Westfield, N. v., Nov. 29, 1836. 

Capt. Strong was sixth in descent from Elder John Strong of 
Northampton and Rev. John Warham of Windsor the first pastor 
in New England. 

Nancy Sheldon was the daughter of Seth and Philena (Edgerton) 
Sheldon am' grandaughter of Capt. Simeon Edgerton of Pawlet, Vt., 
a Revolutionary soldier. 

Philena Edgerton had a notable ancestry through her grand- 
mother Hannah Denison, daughter of George and Mary (Witherell). 
George Denison who graduated at Harvard in 1693, was the grand- 
son of Capt. George Denison, the famous soldier, who married Ann 

Boradil. 

Mary Witherell his wife was the granddaughter of Rev. William 
Witherell and Jonathan Brewster, son of Elder William or the May- 
flower. A sketch of Elder Brewster is given in the "Encyclopedia 
Britanuica." 

Mr. Witherell was educated at Cambridge, where he became an A. 
B. in 1623 and an A. M. in 1626. After coming to New England 
he became pastor of the church at Scituate and was one of the best 
of the early colonial poets. Dean's "History of Scituate" gives a 
good account of him and credits the tradition that his mother was 
the daughter of John Rogers the martyr of Smithfleld. 



APPENDIX A. 

THE JONATHAN GILBERT FAMILY OF 

HARTFORD. 



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OXATHAN GILBERT, born in England about 1616, 
was a land owner at Hartford, Conn., in 1645. He 
died there December 10, 1682, aged 64. It is probable 
that he had been in the colony a number of years, as in 
1646 he was engaged in difficult negotiations with Uncas and 
other Indian chiefs, and as an interpreter with the Indians 
in April, 1647. His ancestry is unknown. Savage says: 
''William Gilbert, of Windsor, 1640, was perhaps the father 
of Jonathan, Thomas, John, Josiah and Obadiah, but no 
proof." If this is true ( i) it is remarkable that he did not 
have a grandchild that bore his nanie. 

Thomas, of Windsor and Springfield ; John, of Hartford, 
and Josiah, of Wethersfield, were known to have been his 
brothers, and according to family tradition Obadiah, of Fair- 
field, was also. He married first, Mary, daughter of Elder 
John White, Jan. 29, 1645-6. She died in 1650 and he mar- 
ried second, Mary, daughter of Hugh and Frances Wells' and 
niece of Governor Tho-mas Wells. 

His second wife was remarkable for her prudence and 
energy, which contributed greatly to his success, and who was 
honored in the lives of her children. He died Dec. 10, 1682, 
aged 64, and his second wife July 3, 1700, aged 74. Thej 
lie side by side in the ancient burial place at Hartford. 

Jonathan Gilbert was the chief inn-holder of Hartford, 
and in his house the General Cburt usually met when they 
did not sit at the meeting-house. Mrs. Gilbert conducted the 
inn for many years after her husband's death. 

He was a man of business, respectability and enterprise, 
engaged in the trade and coasting business of the young colonies, 
possessed of great wealth for the day, collector of customs at 

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Ilartfiii'tl, marshal of the colonv — an office corresponding to 
that of high sheriff — a deputy to the General Court. He ac- 
quired large tracts of land in tlie different settlements, which 
he subsequently divided among his children. 

There is some reason to think that Jonathan Gilbert be- 
longed to the family of Sir IIum])lirey Gilbert, of Devonshire, 
l)Ut ihcre is no proof of it, and the pedigree which lias been 
published showing such connection is not credited. Unfor- 
tunately spurious pedigrees have been printed about many 
pi-ominent Xew England families. It is certain, however, that 
he was worthy to have l)een a relative of Sir IIum})hrey, and 
after reading the account of him given by J. Wingate Thornton 
it would almost seem as though he were. This was printed 
in the Xew England Genealogical Ilegister, vol. 4, and it is 
regretted that space will not permit giving it in full. After 
(pioting from Gookiu showing the perilous condition of affairs 
when the white settlements in Connecticut were threatened with 
destruction by the Indians, he says: 

"The increasing power of the white men, and their aggressive 
policy, excited their jealousy, which was manifested by murders, firings, 
and all cruelties, of Indian revenge. Such were the state of affairs 
when the colony availed itself of Gilbert's services in perilous negotia- 
tions with these enraged, crafty and faithless savages. None but a 
resolute man, of a cool, penetrating eye, a wary watchfulness, and a 
fearless temper, could gain respect or safety among them. Uncas, like 
King Philip, was a patriot, and a settled hatred to his new neighbors 
fired his heart and mind, and filled the bi-easts of his people." 

My. Homer W. Brainard, of Hartford, colleoted much 
vahialile information about the family for Mr. John B. Bloss, 
of Washington, Mrs. Bloss being a descendant of Jonathan 
Gill)ert. This has been printed bv ]\Ir. Bloss and from it 
some facts have been gleaned. 

Jonathan Gilbert had two children by his first wife, Mary 
White: 

i. JOXATHAA^, born :\Iay 11, 1648. He was so wayward 
ill his early manhood that his father left him a smaller 
share <>f liis estate than his brothers. After his fathei*'s 
death he a])])lied to the court for relief, saying that he had 
become fully reconciled to his father, who had approved 
of his marriage. The court, witli the consent of Mrs. 



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Gilbert, his stepmother, granted him a considerable in- 
crease from his father's estate. He married Dorothy 
Stow, daughter of Rev. Samuel, of Middletown, and died 
in Middletown, Feb. 1, 1698. He had ten children, 
recorded at Middletown. 

ii. MARY, baptized Dec. 17, 1G49, married first, John 
Rossiter; second, Samuel Holton. 

Jonathan Gilbert had seven other children by his 
second wife, Mary Wells. 

iii. SARAH, born July 25, 1651, married Capt. Andrew 
Belcher, of Boston. He was a member of the council 
from 1702 to 1717 and Eliot says "was the most opulent 
merchant in the town of Boston, a man of integTity and 
honor, a friend to religion and learning." He died Oct. 
31, 1717, his wife Jan. 26, 1689. Their seven children 
were : 

1. Andrew, born 1G72, died unmarried. 

2. Sarah, married first Joseph Lynde and second John Foye. 

3. Elizabeth, born Jan. 12, 1678, married Daniel Oliver; their son 
Peter Oliver, born in Boston, March 26, 1713, graduated at Har- 
vard, was appointed a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme 
Court in 1756 and in 1771 became chief justice. See further 
notice of him in Encyclopaedia Britannica. 

4. Mary, born March 7, 1680, married George Vaughan of Ports- 
mouth. 

5. Jonathan, born Jan. 8, 1682, graduated at Harvard College in 
1699. He traveled abroad for many years; on his I'eturn be- 
came a merchant in Boston, was a member of the council for 
several years, and in 1728 was sent as agent to England. In 
Jan., 1729-30, he was commissioned Governor of Massachusetts, 
which office he held for eleven years. In 1747 he was made 
Governor of New Jersey, serving until his death in 1757. He 
married first, Mary, daughter of Lieutenant Governor William 
Partridge of New Hampshire and second, Mary Louisa Emilia 
Teal. He had five children, all by his first wife. 

Andrew, his eldest son, graduated at Harvard in 1724, was 
for a few years member of the council and died at. Milton in 
1771. Eliot says of him: "He possessed a handsome property 
without much patriotic zeal or literary taste." 

Jonathan, second son of the Governor, graduated at Har- 
vard in 1728 and was one of the early settlers of Chebucto, 
now Halifax. He was Chief Justice and Lieutenant Governor 
of Nova Scotia. Eliot says of him: "He was a man of excel- 
lent habits, prudent, upright, of great political integrity. His 
prejudices were much in favor of New England." 

6. Ann, born March 30, 1684, married Oliver Noyes. 

7. Martha, born March 29, 1686, married Anthony Stoddard. 



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iv. LYDIA, born Oct. 3, 1654, married first, Stephen Eicb- 
ardson, of Stonington, and second, Chapman. 

V. XATHAXIEL, date of birth unknown, died nnmarried. 

vi. THOMAS, born in 1(555, married first, Lydia Ballett and 
second, Mrs. Mary Trowbridge. He had six children, and 
resided in Boston. 

He was Captain of the skip Swan, which was o-wnied 
by his brother-in-hiw. Captain Belcher. During King 
William's war the French sent a squadron to sweep our 
commerce from the shores of l^ew England. Captain 
Gilbert, with his associates, captured a French ship 
called the Saint Jacoh. In 161)5 he sailed for London, 
was taken by a French privateer and imprisoned for two 
months in France. The remains of Captain Gilbert and 
his wife Lydia rest in the "Granery burial ground" in 
Boston. 

vii. SA]\IUEL, born about 1763, married Mary Rogers, and 
resided in Hartford, where he was commissioned ensign 
of the train band in 1698. In 1707 he removed to Col- 
chester, where he was appointed captain of the train band. 
He died Aug. 5, 1733, at which time he resided in what 
is now the town of Salem. He had six sons and one 
daughter. 

viii. EBENEZEIi, mentioned in his father's will; no further 
account. 

ix. RACHEL, married Sept. 22, 1686, Josiah Marshfield. 

X. HESTER, married Charles Dickenson. 



APPENDIX B. 

THE EDWARDS FAMILY OF HARTFORD. 

1. WILLIAM EDWARDS was one of the first settlers of 

Hartford. His mother was Ann, wife of James 

Cole, whom she married in England. There is 

nothing known abont their ancestry. The widely- 

pulilished statement that he was the son of Rev. 

Richard Edwards has long been discredited. 

James Cole, his stepfather, died in 1652, and his widow 

Ann was made the sole executrix of his will. William Edwards, 

one of the legatees, was called "my well-beloved sonn." 

Mrs. Cole died Feb. 20, 1679. A short, time before her 
decease she made a. verbal disposition of her estate, which, as 
entered on the Records of the Court of Probate, is as follows: 

"Mrs. Cole declaring that it was her minde, that after her decease, 
her home and Lande should be to her son William Edwards, he only 
to have the use & Improvement for himselfe & wife during their nat- 
urall life, & then it should return to her Grandson Richard Edwards 
& to his heires forever, and the like dispose she made of the other part 
of her estate, as appeares by the Testimony of Mr. Saul Willy, Mr. Jon- 
athan Gilbert, and Wm. Edwards, which the Court approves of & con- 
firmes, & this Court Granted Administration upon the estate to Richard 
Edwards, who accepted the same in Court." 

William Edwards married, about 16-15, Agues, widow of 
William Spencer, one of the first settlers of Hartford. Her 
family name is unknown, and the statement that one of her 
brothers in England was Mayor of Exeter and another Mayor 
of Barnstable, is given without indorsement. 

William Spencer was a man of note who settled at Ciam- 
bridge, Mass., in 1631, but returned to England r d married 
his wife in 1633; thei" three children were S.muet^, Sarah 
(wife of John C-iSe), and Elizabeth who married first William 
Wellman and second Jacob Joy, having eight children by the 
former and four by the latter. 

The widow Agnes Spencer was a more than ordinary 
woman; she had a large and notable posterity by both of her 
husbands. Her granddaughter Deborah Joy married Captain 

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Andrew Ward and had nine children. Among their many dis- 
tinguished descendants was Henry Ward Beecher, so that she is 
the ancestress of the two most notable divines in America, Ed- 
wards and Beecher, who with William EUery Channing are 
the onlv ])reacliers and theologians admitted to the ''Hall of 
Fame." 

William Edwards died before 1672, but the date of his 
wife's death is unknoAvu. They had only one child. 

2. PtlCHAED EDWAEDS, born May 16, 1647, died at 

Hartford April 20, 1718. He was a well-to-do 

merchant, later became an attorney-at-law, and 

practising his profession as early as 1684 ; in 

1702-3 he aro-ued a fuo-itive slave case against 

Saltonstall. 

He was probably the first Queen's Attorney, appointed 

as such in xVpril, 1705, the office having been created in May, 

1704. 

His eldest son, Timothy, wrote as follows concerning him: 

"He was a noble stature, of a straight, wellformed body, and of 
a comely countenance. His smile had a pleasantcy beyond which I 
have seen in many, yea, in most others. He was quick and nimble in 
his movements, even to old age; and was of a strong and healthy con- 
stitution. He had a strong, clear mind, and had a very good utter- 
ance. He had a quick fancy; a pleasant, ready wit. with a very good 
judgment. He could ai'gue in a matter and reason in a case very well. 
He was a man of considerable reading; both in Law, History, and 
Divinity; was well furnished for society, and very pleasant in consul- 
tation. Thus it pleased the Most High to endow and adorn my dear 
departed father with many virtues which rendered him very lovely 
and desirable in his life, and much lamented in his death." 

He married, ]^ov. 19, 1667, Elizabeth, daughter of 
William and Elizabeth Tuttle, of ISTew Haven, who came from 
Xorthamjiton, England, in 1635. They were divorced in 1691 
and ho marri('(l (2) Mary Talcott. Insanity was one of the 
grounds for the divorce. 

Tiicliai-d Edwards had five children by his first wife and 
six by the second, bul the foraier had two other children not 
recognized by him. 

The high character of her son and grandson, and especially 
the oiiiinence of the latter, made cons])icuous by contrast the 



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sins of Elizabeth Tuttle. It has been a fruitful subject of dis- 
cussion with many Avriters and widely different opinions have 
been expressed. 



From Tuttle Genealogy. 

"A remarkable feature in our 
family history, as it would be 
in any other, is the branch of 
Elizabeth. It is an interesting 
genealogical study. Both the par- 
ents were of the same Welsh 
race. There is evidence that the 
mother had the sensitive and ex- 
citable temperament of genius. 
Richard Edwards, being an only 
child, inherited ample means 
and gave his children the best 
education the country afforded. 
To educate is to bring out, and 
to train, it cannot create talents 
or character. The ministerial 
profession was then almost the 
only field for the employment of 
able and educated men. So all 
things conspired to favor the 
natural bent for their son, Tim- 
othy. The process was continued, 
and in the next generation 
reached its highest development 
in his son Jonathan. From the 
very beginning this branch has 
been noted for its high regard 
for education, its scholarly cul- 
ture, and its religious disposi- 
tion. It is said to include a 
larger number of eminent per- 
sons than have sprung from any 
other one of the New England 
founders. It is wonderful, says 
a late writer, how much of the 
grace and culture of American 
society has sprung from this 
root. The same pursuits con- 
tinued generation after genera- 
tion in the same families, or 
originally set apart by nature 
for a chosen work, has resulted 
in a heritage of confirmed apti- 
tudes, enlarged natural capaci- 
ties, delicacy and refinement of 
physical organization, manners, 
sentiments and tastes; a sort of 
'Brahmin Caste in New Eng- 
land,' as Dr. Holmes put it, of 
which the Edwards family form 
a considerable proportion, and in 
which it holds a high rank." 



FRo:\r CoxN. Quarterly. 

"The branch of the Tuttle fam- 
ily from which Elizabeth Tuttle 
came, was erratic to the degree 
of insanity, and is so to a cer- 
tain extent to the present day. 
This family taint was restrained 
by the strong will and great spir- 
ituality and intellectual vigor of 
Rev. Timothy and Rev. .Jona- 
than, only to crop out again in 
renewed activity in the son (Pier- 
pont Edwards), and the grand- 
son (Aaron Burr), Ol the 'divine 
Jonathan,' both of whom were 
profligate, vicious and licentious. 
Mrs. Richard Edwards' brother 
was found guilty of slaying his 
sister, by the Colonial Court, and 
executed; and another sister was 
found guilty of killing her own 
son, but through the confusion 
existing at that time, she es- 
caped the penalty of the law." 

"In heredity and environment, 
Darwin finds the evolution of 
man. The influence of environ- 
ment works slowly and with con- 
tinually diminishing force; while 
heredity, being the sum of the 
accretions of uncounted centu- 
ries and tending constantly to 
greater fixity in its forms, is 
well nigh omnipotent in the de- 
termination of individual char- 
acter." 

Rev. A. J. Gorden, in a ser- 
mon at Princeton College, the 
alma mater of Aaron Burr, said: 

"When I was here before, I 
went into the graveyard and saw 
close together, the tombs of Jon- 
athan Edwards and Aaron Burr; 
and it set me thinking of the 
vast gulf between those two ca- 
reers; one the seraphic life of 
a soul whose intellect and affec- 
tions were aflame with divine 
love and holiness; the other, es- 
tranged from God, going on from 
sin to sin till his hands were im- 
brued in the blood of murder." 



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The ehildroii of Richard and Elizabeth (Tuttlc) Edwards 
Avere : 

i. TI]\IOTIIY, born 1669, married Esther Stoddard, daugh- 
ter of Rev. Solomon, and died in 175S. He graduated 
at Harvard in 1691 and was the pastor of the Church in 
East Windsor. He had ten daughters and one son, 
Jonathan, the distinguished divine. The Rev. Jonathan 
Edwards, born 1703, married Sarah, daughter of Rev. 
James Pierpont, and died at Princeton, X. J., March 28, 
1758, about six weeks after his installation as President 
of the College, where he succeeded his son-in-law. 

The Encyclopoedia Britannica describes him as "the 
most distingiiished metaphysician and divine of America." 

He had eleven children. One daughter, Esther, w\as 
the wife of Rev. Aaron Burr, President of Princeton 
College, and mother of Vice-President Burr, and his son 
Jonathan w^as President of Union College. 

Pierpont,* the youngest child of Rev. Jonathan, re- 
sided in Kew Haven, married Frances Ogden, and their 
daughter Henrietta Frances was the wife of the celebrated 
inventor, Eli Whitney. 

ii. ABIGAIL, born 1671, married (1) Benjamin Lathrop 
and (2) Capt. Thomas Stoughton. She had ten children 
by her second husband. 

iii. ELIZABETH, born 1675, married (1) Jacob Doming, 

of. Hartford, and (2) Hinckley, of Kingston, 

R. 1. She had four children by her first husband. 

iv. ANN, born 1678, married (1) Jonathan Richardson and 
(2) William Davenport, 

V. MABEL, baptized 1685, married Jonathan Bigelow, of 
Hartford, by whom she had six children. 



*"Pierpont Edwards became a brilliant, eccentric, and licentious 
Connecticut lawyer and jurist, a rank prototype of talented immor- 
ality, which was only too closely imitated by his nephew, Aaron Burr, 
with whom he was at one time quite intimate." From Windsor Farmes, 
page 148. 



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Children by his second wife: 

vi. JOlSTATHAlSr, born in 1693, died the same year. 

vii. JOHN, born 1694, married Christian Williamson, and 
had seven children. He resided in Hartford. 

viii. HANJSTAH, born 1696, married Joseph Backus, Jr,. of 
ISTorwich and Hartford, and had four children. 

ix. EICHARD, born 1698, died in 1713. 

X. DAJS^IEL, born in 1701; graduated at Yale in 1720; 
married Sarah Hooker, and had two children. He was 
a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Colony. 

xi. SAMUEL, born 1702, married Jerusha Pitkin and had 
one child. He resided in Hartford. 



APPENDIX C. 

THE YARRINGTON FAMILY OF NEW 

ENGLAND. 

PETER YAREI^^GTON resided at BeMerlv, Mass., 
in July, 169G, with his wife Abiah. No other Yar- 
ring-ton or Yerrington family has been found in New 
England history prior to the Revolution. 

There was an Aiithony Yerrengton, in Xew York City 
in 17o8 and presumably he was the Anthony Yarington, of 
Poughkeepsie, who had sons Gale and Andrew, all mentioned 
in the will of Andrew Gale, of Jamaica, L. I., in 1742. 

The late Rev. Benjamin M. Yarrington, of Greenw^ich, 
Conn., had some records of his family which stated that their 
emigrant ancestor "was William Yarrington, who came from 
Wales and settled near Boston, where he married Alice Wood- 
ward, who was born in Amisterdam, Holland, probably of 
English ancestor. The first part of this family history is 
based on tradition, but it is evident that Peter Yarrington is 
the one referred to, and it is also in error as to the Christian 
name of his wiie. In tlie Beverly records her name is given 
as Abiel, but the New London probate records give it as Abiah, 
while the Coventry records give the name of her granddaughter 
as Abial. Her name may have been copied as Alice from 
some record by mistake. 

Peter and Abiah Yarrington had nine children, tiie first 
seven of which were baptized at Beverly, Mass., and the last 
two at Preston, Conn. They probably moved to Preston in 
1706 and from there many years later to Stonington, where 
he died. Presumably he died in 1725, as the inventory of 
his estate was dated Oct. 5 of that year. His wife Abiah and 
son Ezekiel were appointed by the New London Probate Court 
to administer to his estate. 

A suit against the estate by John Starkw^eather was car- 
ried up to the General Court, which decided in favor of his 
administrators, in 1727. The Woodward family of Preston 

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may have been related to Mrs. Yarrington. On April 18, 
1711, the chnrch at Preston received Daniel Woodward and 
wife by letter from Cambridge, Mass., and in 1714 Hannah, 
wife of Amos Woodward. 

Children : 

1. WILLIAM, baptized at Beverly July 12, 1696, died 
young. 

2. ELIZABETH, baptized July 12, 1696. 

3. PETER, baptized January 17, 1696-7, married to Abigail 

Lamb, Dec. 21, 1721, at Preston, by Rev. Salmon Treat 
(both of Stouington). Children: Rufus, 1724-5; Wil- 
liam, 1727; Zipporah, IToO; Simon, 1732; Elijah, 1734; 
Abigail, 1736; Keziah, 1738; Amaziah, 1739. 

4. IIAXXAH, baptized at Beverly March 26, 1699. 

5. MARY, baptized at Beverly ^^ovember 16, 1701. 

<3. WILLIAM, baptized May 16, 1703, died in May, 1746. 
He settled in Smith Towii, L. I., and there married 
Rebecca Dayton, daughter of Jonathan. He was a 
schoolmaster and a fine penman. His Bible is now owned 
by the Rev. Samuel R. J. Hoyt, D. D., of Harlan, Iowa, 
a nephew of Rev. Benjamin M. Yarrington. Children: 
William, bom January 27, 1738; Desire, Jonathan and 
Rachel. 

7. EZEKIEL, baptized March 25, 1704-5, married Jerusha 

Avery, March 18, 1731, and resided in Stonington. 
Children: Desire, bom Nov. 6, 1732; Ezekiel, Oct. 20, 
1733; Laura, Aug. 7, 1735; Jmisha, . Dec. 10^ J137 ; 
Amos, Oct. 27, 1740 ; Joseph, March 10, 1743 ; Deborah, 
May 10, 1746, and Phebe, April 8, 1748. 

8. RACHEL, baptized at Preston, Conn., Aug. 10, 1707, 
married Amos Richardson. Their first child, ISTathan 



128 

(born March 20, 1725), was baptized at Preston, Sept. 
26, 1725, and at tJie same time she was received as a 
member. 

9. EBEN"EZER, baptized at Preston, July 29, 1710. 



APPENDIX D. 

THE RUST FAMILY OF NEW ENGLAND. * 

1. HENRY RUST settled at Hingham, Mass., before June, 

1635, It is supposed that he came from Hing- 
ham, Norfolk Co., England. He was a land 
owner and one of the principal town officers at 
Hingham. In 1645 he was appointed for "ye 
recording births and bunials." He removed 
to Boston, where he was admitted to be an inhabitant March 
31, 1651. He purchased a place in Boston from the widow 
Awdrey Palmer, the deed being dated March 11, 1652. This 
land was situated at what is now the north comer of Summer 
and Hawley Streets. It adjoined the land of Amos Richard- 
son and on it the first Trinity Church was erected in 1728. 
He was a glover by trade. He died about 1684. The name 
of his wife is unknown. They had four children: 

i. SAIVIUEL, baptized Aug. 5, 1638, married Eiliz,ubeth 
Rogers and resided in Boston. 

ii. NATHANIEL, baptized Feb. 2, 1639-40, married Mary 
Wardell and settled in Ipswich. 

iii. HANNAH, baptized Nov. 7, 1641, married Robert 
Earle, of Boston. 

iv. ISRAEL, the following: 

2. ISRAEL RUST, baptized in Hingham, Nov. 12, 1643, 

removed to Northampton, Mass., when a young- 
man and there married, Dec. 9, 1669, Rebecca, 
daughter of Lieut. William and Sarah Clark. 
He died intestate Nov. 11, 1712, and his estate 
was settled by "Articles of agreement made by 
Rebecca Rust, widow & Relect of Israel Rust, deceased, & 
Nathaniel & Israel, Jonathan & John Rust & Samuel Allin & 
Robert Banks with respect to the estate of the said Israel Rust, 
Deceased their Honored father." 

* See " Record of the Rust Family " by Albert D. Rust, 1891. 

129 



130 

His Avidow, Rebecca, was born in 1G48 and died Feb. 8, 
1733. Their eight children were I^athaniel, born 1671; 
Samuel, bom 1673, died 1702; Sarah, l)orn 1675; Experience, 
born 1677; Israel, born 1679; Jonathan, born 1681; Rebecca 
I and John. 

3. CAPT. XATIIAJSHEL RUST, born in Northampton, 
Xov. 16, 1671, married first, May 17, 1692, 
Mary, or Mercy, dan<>,hter of John and Deliv- 
erance Atchison, of Hatfield. Her father was 
killed by the Indians in 1677. She was born 
Oct. 30, 1673, and died Jan. 21, 1754. Capt. 
Rust married second, when he was almost eighty-three years 
of age, Mrs. Mary Rose, Sept. 9, 1754. He was one of the first 
settlers in the town of Coventry, Conn, (about 1700), and 
was one of the proprietors' committee in 1711. At the first 
town meeting in 1714 his name heads the board of Selectmen 
elected. He resided where William O. Gardner lived in 
1891 and kept a tavern there for many years. He probably 
was in command of the train band, as his name appears always 
with the title of Captain on the town records. His will was 
dated in 1760, but there appears to be no record of his death. 
Their ten children were: 

i. EXPERIEXCE, bom Nov., 1693,: married Samuel 
I . Gurley, of Coventry, later of Mansfield. He was dis- 

I tingiiished for piety and was eminently useful in the 

J cause of religion and humanity. 

ii. XATHAXIEL, born Dec, 1695, married Hannah Hatch, 
iii. MARGARET, bom May 11, 1698, died Sept. 18, 1712. 
iv. LYDIA, l>om Nov. 20, 1700, died Dec. 2, 1702. 
V. SAMUEL, born 1703 ; record given below. 
vi. MARY, born July 7, 1705, died Nov. 13, 1706. 

vii. NOAH, bora July 24, 1708, married Keziah Strong, 
resided in Coventry. The first preaching in the North 
Parish was at his house in Dec., 1736. 

viii. DANIEL, born Feb. 18, 1711, main-ied first, Anna 
^\^lite, and second, Mary Mead. 



131 

ix. ELIZABETH, born June 11, 1713, married Daniel 
Hearick. 

X. LYDIA, born May 9, 1716, married Joseph Hearick. 

4. CAPT. SAMUEL RUST, born May 10, 1703, married, 
July 2, 1722, Sarah Hawkins, daughter of 
George, granddaughter of John, and great- 
gTanddaughter of Anthony Hawkins, of Farm- 
ing-ton. Capt. Rust was a prominent man in 
Coventry, represented the town in the Greneral 

Assembly and was chairman of the first church committee. 

He Avas commissioned an ensign in 1738, a lieutenant in 1746, 

and captain in 1767. He died in 1773. Their seven children 

were: 

i. EREELOVE, born May 25, 1724, married Eleazer 
Kingsbuiw, and had Ereelove, 1743 ; Anna, 1745 ; Sarah, 
1746-7 ; Eleazer, 1749-50 ; Samuel Rust, 1754. 

ii. ANNE, born May 17, 1726, married, Aug. 30, 1747, 
Lemuel Richardson (not Samuel, as given in the Rust 
Genealogy). 

iii. SAMUEL, born Feb. 23, 1727, died Sept. 26, 1740. 

iv. SARAH, born June 4, 1732, married, 1749, William 
Wilson and had Jacob, Dorothy, William, Sarah, Abigail, 
John, Sarah (2nd), Abigail (2nd), Zebulon. 

V. NATHANIEL, bom May 15, 1735, died Sept. 30, 1740. 

vi. ZEBULON, born July 12, 1737, died Sept. 23, 1740. 

vii. CHLOE, born May 14, 1742. 



^* 



INDEX. 



The descendants of Amos Richardson are indicated by a figure before the 
name showing the number of their generation in descent from him. Only- 
one entry is made to cover descendants of the same name and generation. 

Those who are known to have died young are in most cases omitted. All 
other persons of the same name are indexed together. This includes those 
related to the family by marriage and incidently mentioned. 

The Christian name, if known, may be found in the index when not given 
in the text. 

Erastus A. ABBOT 

Ann (Wakeman) ADAMS 

David 

President John 

President John Quincy 

Jonathan 

Henry 115, 

Levi 

Sergt. Levi 

Mabel (Richardson) 

Rebecca (Waldo) 

Samuel 

S. Delevan 115, 

Lieut. Thomas 

Benjamin ALBE 

Eleanor ALLEN 

Flora E. 

Freelove E. 
9 Gideon R. 
9 Henry 
9 John 

Capt. Jonathan 

Joseph E. 
^ Lizzie 

Robert 

Samuel ALLIN 

Matthew ALLYN 

Major Azel AMES 

Capt. David ANDERSON 22, 

3 David 

Dorothv ASHLEY 

Deliverance ATCHINSON 

John 

Marv (or Mercy) 

Major Humphrev ATHERTON 

R. "Meredith ATKINS 

Dr. Daniel AVERY 

Festus 

Irene 

Jerusha 

Permelia 98, 

Roselle (Richardson) 

William 

Elder Stephen BABCOCK 

Marv Ann BABCROFT 

Joseph BACKUS 

George E. BACON 

Eli BAKER 

Ella M. 
9 Margaret E. 

William G. 

Lvdia BALLETT 

Benjamin BANCROFT 

133 



68 


Gov. Nathaniel P. BANKS 


110 


114 


Charles W. BARDSLEY 


6 


115 


Joseph BARNES 


72 


il5 


Lydia Mary 


103 


115 


Mary C. BARTON 


59 


115 


Addie E. BATES 


108 


li^ 


9 Adelia 


108 


115 


10 George Andrew 


109 


115 


9 George Nelson 


109 


115 


10 Hazel 


109 


115 


James N. 


108 


115 


10 Jennie 


109 


116 


9 Libbie 


109 


115 


9 Marcus James 


108 


58 


Thomas BEAM 


109 


71 


Earl L. BEAN 


58 


U 


Permelia liEAN (or Bane) 


47 


59 


Seth BECKLEY 


68 


75 


Ann BEECHER 


45 


75 


Rev. Henrv Ward 


122 


75 


9 Elizabeth Wright BEERS 


87 


57 


9 Frank Bartlett 


87 


86 


9 Lillie 


87 


75 


9 Nathan T. 


87 


75 


10 Dr. Nathan T. 


87 


129 


Nathan Thornas 


87 


60 


9 Stephen Richardson 


87 


5 


9 Thomas Hawley 


87 


, 23 


Andrew BELCHER 


119 


22 


Capt. Andrew 


119, 120 


96 


Ann 


119 


130 


Elizabeth 


119 


130 


Jonathan 


119 


130 


Gov. Jonathan 


32, 4], 119 


13 


Martha 


119 


80 


Mary 


119 


64 


Sarah 


119 


105 


Emma L. BENDALL 


77 


60 


Mark J. 


78 


127 


Philip BENJAMIN 


25 


105 


Clarinda BENLARD 


99 


105 


Cleoria BENNETT 


55 


23 


Daniel BENTON 


29 


39 


10 Henry L. BERTINE 


81 


69 


Josiah H. 


81 


124 


10 Mary F. L. 


81 


94 


Hannah BETTS 


110 


70 


Christena BEYER 


101 


101 


Prof. Samuel W. 


101 


59 


John BIGELOW 


124 


59 


Sarah BISSELL 


54 


120 


Minnie BITTENBENDER 


44 


36 


Amos R. BLACK 


76 



134 



Bl..\rK— Continued. 




Lucy CARPENTER 


69 


Budley S. 


75 


Tirzah 


64 


Mary BI.ACKMORE 


115 


John CASE 


121 


Carrie BLAMvFELL, 


106 


Hugh CAULKINS 


10 


Orrin D. BLEAKLEY 


75 


Capt. William CHA>IBERLAIN 93 


John B. BLOSS 


118 


10 Emma Louise CHAMBERS 


70 


Rachel BOAllN 


42 


10 Frank Marvin 


77 


John BOGART 


SO 


John Lemuel 


76 


Ann BORADIL, 


116 


10 Josephine 


76 


Alexander BOWE 


116 


Rev. William E. CHANNING 


122 


Ruth 


116 


Harriet F. CHAPMAN 


70 


10 Eliza Ann BRADBROOK 


80 


Capt. John 


30 


Robert 


80 


Mehitable 


30 


Abigail BRADLEY 


114 


Richard 


28 


9 Carrie A. 


95 


William 


18 


9 Elisha 


95 


Anna CHESEBOROUGH 


23 


George A. 


95 


Hannah 


23 


10 Anna BRADA^ 


79 


Nathaniel 


23 


10 Edith Richardson 


78 


William 


18 


10 Elizabeth 


79 


James A. CLARK 


77 


10 Emma 


79 


Rebecca 129, 130 


10 Eunice 


78 


Sarah 


129 


10 Harriet 


79 


Lieut. William 


129 


Dr. John Alexander 


78 


Joseph CLARKE 


15 


10 Olive Richardson 


78 


3 Katherine 


22 


10 Sophia Meserole 


79 


3 Margaret 


22 


Capt. Gideon BRAINARD 


30 


3 Prudence 


22 


Gideon 


30 


3 Sarah 


22 


Homer W. 


118 


Capt. Timothv 9 


21, 23 


Daniel BREWSTER 


42 


Mercy CLAUSON 


42 


Jonathan 


116 


Fanny CLEINE 


55 


Elder William 


116 


Aseneth COLE 


93 


6 Anne BRIGHAM 


55 


Ebenezer 


93 


7 Anne 


56 


James 


121 


6 Bethiah 


55 


8 James M. COLEMAN 


48 


6 Cephas 


56 


8 Nancy 


48 


6 Don Carlos 


56 


Solomon 


48 


6 Lucia 


56 


8 Solomon L. 


48 


7 Lucia 


56 


7 Clara COLLINS 


73 


6 Marcia (or Martha) 


56 


7 Elijah 


72, 73 


6 Norman 


55 


Judge Gilbert 


4, 20 


7 Sally 


56 


7 Lemuel 


73 


ITriah 


54, 55 


7 Mabel 


73 


Sarah BRINDAl.I< 


49 


7 Mary 


73 


George BROMER 


8 


Nathaniel 


72, 73 


Ida Lewis BROOKE 


79 


7 Rachel 


73 


Andrew K. BROWN 


41 


Ruth COLTON 


110 


Ebenezer 


57 


11 Charles L. CONVERSE 


105 


Capt. John 


93 


Edward 


43, 45 


Jonathan 


23 


Stephen A. 


105 


I.,eGrand 


59 


Emma E. COOK 


97 


Martha 


57 


Harriet M. 


98 


Marj' 


57 


Fred H. COOLEDGE 


59 


Anna BUELli 


46 


10 George B. 


59 


Peter 


46 


10 Marv Ella 


59 


10 Byron G. (Mulcahie) BURBANK 99 | 


9 William D. 


59 


U Byron M. 


99 


Frank COPPLE 


107 


George 


99 


Rev. John COTTON 


15 


11 Wavne 


99 


Sarah E. CRAMB 


101 


BURNS 


SO 


Jasper CRANE 


100 


Rev. Aaron BITRR 


124 


Keturah 


100 


Vice President Aaron 


123, 124 


Phebe CROCKER 


41 


Benjamin F. BUTLER 


85 


Lewis CROOK 


86 


11 Benjanin Franklin 


85 


Julia CROSS 


97 


11 Edith Vincent 


85 


Naomi 


97 


Emma Cornelia 


31 


Palmer 


97 


11 Helen Granville 


85 


Betty CURTIS 


96 


Howard Granville 


85 


Joseph 


96 


•fames J. 


39 


Lucy 


9G 


Rev. George A. CAl«HOtJN 


40, 51, 62 


Moses 


96 


Marv A. CAT.T. 


75 


Theophilus 


96 


Jennie 1,. CAMP 


77 


George CUTHBURT 


44 


4 Lydia CARDER 


29 


Betsv CUTLER 


70 


4 Mary 


29 


9 Anna E. DANEGAR 


87 


4 Rachel 


29 


9 Emma 


87 


Richard 


29 


George 


87 



135 



BANEGAR— Continued. 




9 George W. 


87 


Robert DAIVKS 


129 


Charles DARWIN 


123 


Ann DAVENPORT 


33 


Elizabeth, 33 


, 40 


Humphrey 33, 40, 56 


, 57 


Rachel 


33 


Richard 


33 


Sophronia 


61 


William 33, 40, 


124 


Anna DAVIS 


68 


Charles 


80 


9 John Luther 


80 


9 Josephine 


80 


9 Maria 


80 


9 Mary 


80 


Noah 


68 


Judge Noah 


68 


Major William H. DAY 


82 


Jonathan DAYTON 


127 


Rebecca 


127 


DE \.N 


06 


11 Elena J. M. DE APEZTEGUIA 


85 


11 Emilia G. C. 


85 


11 Hulda C. I. 


85 


11 Julio Jose 


85 


The Marquis 


85 


Joseph DEL,L,IBER 


52 


8 Joseph 


52 


8 Lavinia 


52 


Ammi R. DEMING 


68 


Huldah 


74 


Jacob 


124 


Lieut. Joseph 


74 


8 Judge Eugene DEMPSBY 


38 


John 


38 


George DENISON 


116 


Capt. George 10 


116 


Hannah 


116 


John 


34 


Elizabeth DEPEW 


80 


Sara E. DEXTER 


77 


Charles DICKENSON 


120 


Charlotte DICKINSON 


45 


Vashti 


35 


Roderick DIMOCK 


56 


Susan Whitney (Mrs. Henry P. 


4 


John DIVAN 


12 


Rebecca DOANE 


115 


8 Eva P. DODGE 


59 


8 Jane N. 


59 


8 Marcia Richardson 


59 


8 Mary H. 


59 


Norris 


59 


8 Augustus DOW 


48 


8 Edward 


48 


8 Elizabeth 


48 


Ellen 


77 


8 Eunice 


48 


8 Hannah 


18 


8 Hezekiah 


48 


8 James 


48 


Capt. Joseph 


48 


8 Joseph 


48 


8 Lucia 


48 


8 Mary 


48 


8 Newton 


48 


8 Rebecca 


48 


Emanual DOWNING 


7, 9 


Stoder 


7 


Sarah DRAPER 


35 


(Nathaniel Duncan?) DUNCOME 14 


Elanson DUNKLEE 


77 


Eli 


77 


Rev. Henry DUNSTER 


110 



■DUNSTER— Contit.ued. 
Mary 

Hannah DURGEE 
Rachel DURKEE 
Benjamin W. DWIGHT 
Robert EARLE 
Maud L. EASTON 
Cynthia EDGERTON 
Philena 
Capt. Simeon 
Abigail EDW^ARDS 
Ann (Richardson-Davenport) 

28, 32, 33, 
Ann (Cole) 
Daniel 
Elizabeth 
Esther 
Hannah 

Henrietta Frances 
Rev. Jonathan 32, 41, 123. 

Jonathan 
John 
Mabel 

Pierpont 1-3, 

Rev. Richard 

Richard 32, 121-123, 

Samuel 
Rev. Timothy 
William 

EI.DRIDGE 

EI>IOT (Biog. Diet. ) 



122 
121 



James W. 

Rev. John 

Phillip 
9 Edward S., ELLIS 

George S. 
9 Henry H. 
9 Lizzie F. 
9 Mary W. 
10 Charles J. ELLISON 

Lawrence P. 
10 Elizabeth C. 

Eliza EMELINE 

Ralph Waldo EMERSON 

Marv EMINGER 

10 Louise EMMONS 
Willis 

Gov. John ENDICOTT 

Caroline ENGEIi 

John FAIRAVEATHER 

11 Catherine FARNHA:^! 
Hamilton 

James FARRELI> 
10 John R. 

Capt. FARWELL 

Gov. Reuben E. FENTON 

Rev. Henry M. FIELD 

Caroline FIELDS 

Mary PISH 

Eleazer FITCH 

Hannah 

Sarah FLEET 

James T. FOUNTAIN 

Elizabeth M. FOAVLER 

7 Eunice FOX 
John FOYE 

8 Cornelia G. FRAZIER 
8 Harriet Kirk 

8 Huldah Ann 
8 Sarah 
8 Stephen 

Thomas 
8 William 

D. D. FRENCH 

Russell 

Alpheus FULLER 

Matthew 

Matilda FURMAN 



93 



50, 



110 

58 

70 

48 

129 

59 

54 

116 

116 

124 

124 
121 
125 
124 
124 
125 
124 
124 
124 
125 
124 
124 
121 
125 
125 
;-124 
122 
52 
119 
16 
72 
72 
72 
72 
72 
80 
80 
80 
53 
115 
75 
44 
44 
17 
77 
21 
44 
44 
81 
81 
30 
113 
63 
88 
54 
35 
33 
114 
82 
79 
52 
119 
88 
87 
87 
88 
87 
87 
87 
38 
43 
51 
31 
81 



13fi 



Andrew GALE 

William O. GARDNER 

Christopher GARDY2VER 
9 Anna GARRISON 
S Caroline 
9 Emma 
9 George 
n Horton B. 
9 Huldah 

Jacob 

Judge John 

8 John 

9 John 
John B. 

8 Marcia C. H. 

8 Stephen 

9 Thomas 
"U'illiam P. 

8 William F. 

9 William S. 

3 John GATLIPPE 

Jonathan 
3 Jonathan 
3 Joseph 
3 Mary 
3 Thomas 

Elizabeth GEDNEY 

Cora M. GERE 
9 Josiahanna GERKIN 

Ann Eliza GIDDINGS 

Ebenezer GILBERT 

Hester 

Sir Humphrey 

John 

Jonathan 16, 22, 26, 32, 117, 

Josiah 

Lydia (Richardson) 22, 26-27 32 

Mary 

Nathaniel 
^,,-Obadiah 

Rachel 

Samuel 

Sarah 

Thomas 

Capt. Thomas 

William 

Rev. Hezekiah GOLD 

Thomas GOIN 

J. Wesley GOODELL 

Elizabeth GOOD^VIN 

Marilla A. 

Hannah GOODYEAR 

Deputy Gov. Stephen 

Rev. A. J. GORDEN 
10 Heermans GORDON 

John 
10 Laura 

John 

Francis GOULD 

T..eah 

Rose 

Nathaniel GOVE 

Elizabeth L,. GRANGER 
8 Anna Richardson GRANT 

Arthur Hastings 
8 Clarice 

Jesse Root 

John K. 
S Lawson B. 

Margaret M. 

'■"apt. Noah 
8 Noah 

Noah B. 
8 Orville Foot 
8 I'ermelia 
7 Peter 



126 

49, 130 

17 

88 
88 



76 
88 
88 
88, 89 
88 
88 
76 
77, 88 
88 
88 
82 
88 
88 
20 
20, 21 
20, 21 
20 
20 
20, 21 
77 
98 
90 
71 
120 
120 
118 
117 
118, 121 
117 
, 33, 120 
119 
120 
117 
120 
120 
119 
117 
120 
117 
25 
87 
96 
55 
72 
114 
114 
123 
44 
44 
44 
16 
115 
115 
115 
33 
87 
47 
47 
47 
46, 47 
47 
47 
47 
46 
47 
47 
47 
47 
47 



GRANT-ContinuKl. 
8 Peter Buell 

Rachel M. 
8 Rachel M. 

Roswell M. 

7 Solomon 

8 Solomon K. 
Susan A. 

President Ulvsses S 
Lottie O. GRAVES 
Nelson R. GREELEY 
Polly GREENLE-VF 
Phebe GREEN.MVN 

9 Clarence GREGGS 
9 Florence 

9 Harriet 
Lucius S. 

9 Orman J. 
Richard GRIDLEY 
M. W. GRIFFIN 
Hephzibah GUNTON 
Samuel GURLEY 
Arcenath HADLEY 
Nathan HALE 
Hiland HALL 
Capt. Walter T. 
10 Walter T. 

5 Abi.g-ail HALLAM 

5 Alexander 

3 Amos 

4 Amos 

5 Amos 
5 Desire 

5 Edward 
5 Giles Russell 
Capt. John 

3 John 

4 John 

5 John 

5 Nicholas 
4 Phebe 

4 Prudence 

5 Thomas 
9 Frank L. 
9 Ida L. 
9 Joseph D. 
9 Lillie L. 

Lorenzo 
10 Lorenzo 
10 Maud Lines 
10 Bayard, HAND 
10 Emily 

Lsaac Piatt 
10 Isaac Piatt 
10 Joseph Henry 
10 Kathleen 
10 Laura (Farnham) 
10 Philip Lyman 
10 Richardson 

Clara E. HANFORD 

Haynes 

Jeffry 
9 Jennie 

Lieut. John W. 

Joseph 
9 Dr. •^ mil II 

Capt. Samuel 

Dr. Samuel C. 

Samuel P. 

Rev. Thomas 

Edna R. HARDING 
10 Alfroda HAR>IER 
9 Alfred S. 
10 Benjamin 
10 Carswell 
10 Cora Bell 



HAMILTON 



0'>arl«6 ^, 



47 
47 
47 
47 
46 
47 
47 
46, 47 
98 
101 
56 
24 
71 
71 
71 
71 
71 
7 
39 
98 
1.30 
70 
41 
57 
44 
44 
24 
24 
24 
24 
24 
24 
24 
24 
20, 23, 24, 33 
24 
24 
24 
24 
24 
24 
24 
4, 52 
52 
52 
52 
52 
52 
52 
44 
44 
44 
44 
44 
44 
44 
44 
44 
114 
114 
114 
8.? 
114 
114 
82 
114 
82 
114 
114 
102 
95 
95 
95 
95 
95 



137 



H A KJIKK— Continued, 
a Edwin H. 
lO Florence 
10 Frank 
9 James C 
9 Margaret E. 
9 Mary Maud (Spence) 
10 Ruby 

William H. 
Marv HARMON 
Frances HARRINGTON 
George A. 
10 Ada G. HARRIS 
10 Harriet B. 
10 James H. 

Nettie 
10 Perry 

Reuben 
9 Alfred Z. HASAVELL, 
Edwin 

9 George E. 
Hannah HATCH 
Marv 

Lavinia HATFIEI^D 

Eglln HATHERLA" 

Timothy 

Major John HATHORNE 

Mary E. HAVER 

HAWES 

Emilv HAWKES 
Anthony HAWKINS 
George 

John 
Sarah 

10 7'":iy HAAVTiEY 
10 Eugene 

10 Jay 
Joseph 
Martin G. 
10 Stephen 
10 Walter 

Samuel HAYNE 
Isabell HAYNES 
Marv 

Daniel HEARICK 
Joseph 
9 Henry HEASLEY 
9 Jeremiah 
9 Julia Ann 
9 Obediah F. 

Peter 
9 Peter 
9 Sarah E. 

10 Elmer F. HEATH 
10 Forrest B. 
9 Freemont 

Joel 
9 Luther 
10 Mabel A. 

Jerusha HEDGES 
Marv A. HEERMANCE 
Catharine HEERMANS 
John N. HEETER 
Joshua HEMPSTEAD 
Daniel A. HENDERSON 
Elizabeth B. HENDLEY 
James HEWITT 
Marv Ann HIGBY 
Alexander F. HILL 
in Margaret H. 
10 Ruth A. 

Rev. James HILLHOUSB 

HILLYER 

HINCKLEY 

Clemena HITCHCOCK 
Rev. Leonard HOAR 



66, 



95 

95 

95 

95 

95 

95 

95 

95 

7 

59 

94 

lOS 

IDS 

lOS 

95 

lOS 

lor 

59 

59 

53 

130 

50 

S3 

114 

114 

12 

63 

80 

55 

131 

131 

131 

131 

99 

99 

99 

114 

99 

99 

99 

35 

114 

37 

131 

131 

75 

74 

74 

74 

74 

74 

75 

100 

109 

109 

100 

109 

109 

31 

79 

44 

76 

34 

82 

47 

47 

90 

58 

58 

58 

43 

7S 

124 

60 

21 



Olive W. HODGES 


78 


Ann Sophia HOFFMAN 


78 


Mary A. HOLLISTER 


94 


Joshua HOLMES 


23 


Dr. Oliver Wendell 


123 


Sarah 


35 


Samuel HOLTON 


119 


Sarah HOOKER 


125 


Stephen HOPKINS 


115 


Emily HOUSE 


43 


Aurilla HOAVARD 


42 


Major Frank L. HOW^E 


58 


10 Harold M. 


58 


10 Muriel L. 


58 


Rev. Samuel R. J. HOVT 


127 


Elucy A. HUBBARD 


77 


Hester Ann 


77 


Martha G. M. F. HUDSON 


47 


Sarah 


29 


Lieut. William 


12, 13 


Capt. Henry M. HUGHES 


75 


Margery HUMPHRIE 


110 


4 Elizabeth HUNGERFORD 


?.l 


Green 


31 


4 Green 


31 


4 Hester 


31 


4 Lemuel 


31 


4 Lydia 


31 


4 Mary 


31 


4 Nathaniel 


31 


4 Prudence 


31 


4 Rachel 


31 


4 Sarah 


?1 


4 Stephen 


31 


Mary HUNTINGTON 


71 


Martha 


46 


Philo HUNTLEY 


111 


HURLEY 


91 


Capt. Edward HUTCHINSON 12, 13 


Jonathan INCE 


114 


Emma G. JACKSON 


95 


11 Erie E. JARMAN 


102 


Jerry 


102 


Aaron JENNINGS 


82 


9 Charlotte C. 


82 


9 Frank L. 


82 


Luther 


96 


9 William M. 


82 


JERRARD (or 


Jarrett) 




75 


Elam JEWETT 


65 


6 Elam 


65 


6 Jared 


65 


6 Jemima 


65 


6 Jeremiah 


65 


Mary 


86 


6 Othnial 


65 


Capt. James JOHNSON 


9 


Joseph 


76 


Sarah 


76 


10 Albert F. JONES 


59 


S Albert M. 


58, 59 


Amos A. 


59 


9 Amos M. 


59 


Betsey 


69 


Clara 


75 


9 Helen B. 


59 


9 Helen M. 


59 


Holland 


70 


9 Marcia E. 


59 


9 Myra 


59 


9 Myra H. 


59 


8 Myron A. 


59 


9 Mvron H. 


59 


10 Olive R. 


59 


9 Oliver A. 


59 



138 



JOMCS— Continued. 




KIN<iSB«lRY— Continued. 




9 Ralph A. 


69 


9 Prof. Samuel Shipman 


64 


10 William R. 


59 


Sarah 


131 


Betsv JOllDOIV 


69 


8 Sarah 


54 


Eugenia JOS LIN 


70 


7 Ward 


60 


9 Louis JOSLYN 


69 


William 


54 


Nathaniel G. 


69 


7 William 


54 


Deborah, JOY 


121 


Su.san KINNEE 


54 


Jacob 


121 


Thomas KIRK 


89 


Charles H. JUDD 


101 


KITTRIDGE 


64 


11 Harry L. 


101 


Charity A. KNAPP 


102 


11 Reuben L. 


101 


Darius 


97 


11 William H. 


101 


Isabella A. KNEELAND 


71 


William H. KEELER 


111 


Capt. George KEENEY 


41 


Capt. George KEENEY 


41 


6 Benoni LADD 


65 


Rachel Miller KELLY 


47 


Dr. Henry 


65 


Terrence KELSEY 


71 


6 Henry 


65 


Anna KENNEDY 


81 


6 Herman 


6.5 


Sarah 


35 


6 Hiram 


65 


Harriet E. KERSEY 


106 


6 Peregrine 


65 


Elizabeth KETCHAM 


114 


Mercy Ann LA DUE 


54 


Capt. Joseph 


114 


Abigail LAMB 


127 


Robert KIDD 


80 


Thomas LASSETT 


40 


Capt. William 


24 


Benjamin LATHROP 


124 


James H. KILLOUGH 


92 


John LEE 


n 


7 Rev. Addison KINGSBURY 


62 


9 Charles LEWIS 


77 


8 Addison 


64 


11 Charles 


99 


8 Albert G. 


55 


David 


77 


Alvin 


64 


9 George A. 


77 


8 Andrew D. 


55 


11 Grace 


99 


8 Andrew 17. 


54 


9 Grace I. 


i I 


Anna 


131 


9 Helen F. 


77 


8 Antoinette 


54 


9 Jane Isabella 


77 


7 Augustus 


55 


Rev. John 


CI 


8 Augustus W. 


54 


Josiah 


77 


9 Carlton A. 


55 


9 Lucinda E. 


77 


7 Charles 


55 


9 Marvin D. 


77 


Charles A. 


64 


Reuben 


99 


8 Charles P. 


55 


9 Sarah Ann 


77 


9 Clara Ladue 


55 


9 Simon R. 


77 


8 Dinah 


60 


9 William E. 


77 


8 Ebenezer 


60 


Charlotte E. LILLIE 


^M 


9 Edward P. 


55 


8 Elizabeth 


61 


8 Edwin S . 


55 


Ira 


60 


Eleazer 


131 


8 Jannette 


61 


7 Eleazer 


54 


8 Marcus 


61, .14 


Electa 


49 


Sarah Lavinia LINES 


h-J 


7 Electa 


61 


Emma LITTLE 


W 


7 Emeline 


64 


Carolina T. LOCKWOOD 


86 


8 Emily M. 


55 


Nancy E. LOGAN 


49 


7 Erastus 


55 


Daniel LOOMIS 


51 


8 Erastus 


55 


8 Daniel 


51 


7 Eunice B. 


60 


8 Edwin 


51 


8 Frederick W. 


55 


George N. 


61 


Freelove 


131 


8 Juliatta 


51 


8 Harlan Page 


63 


8 Mary K. 


51 


8 Harriet 


55 


Polly 


f.5 


8 Henry Clay 


54 


Rachel LOTHROP 


68 


9 Henry Clay 


55 


Ellen J. LUCAS 


98 


Eieut. Joseph 


60 


Luke LUKES 


72 


S Joseph 


64 


9 Catherine A. LUTHER 


81 


8 Joseph Addison 


63 


9 Huldah Davis 


81 


9 Julia H. 


55 


John F. 


81 


7 Lois 


60 


9 Mary K 


81 


8 Louisa 


60 


9 Sarah A. 


81 


8 Maria 


60 


8 Alicia LYMAN 


48 


7 Mary 


61 


8 Chauncey 


48 


8 Mary 


55 


Huldah 


50 


8 Martha R. 


64 


8 Idocia 


48 


7 Oliver 


60 


8 Jane Richardson 


48 


8 Oliver R. 


60 


Capt. John 


43 


7 Persls 


60 


8 Julia Ann 


48 


7 Roxana 


61 


Laura 


43 


7 Ruth 


62 


8 Lucy 


48 


8 Ruth M. 


64 


8 Mary 


48 


Samuel Rust 


131 


Mary C. 


53 



139 



L YM A IV— Continued. 




Henry MITCHELL 


88 


8 Miranda 


48 


Elizabeth MOORE 


107 


8 Natiian M. 


48 


9 Frank E. 


58 


William 


48 


9 Hubert S. 


58 


9 George F. LYNCH 


88 


John 


11 


John C. 


88 


9 Lillian E. (Howe), 


5, 58 


9 Leonard J. 


88 


9 Ralph Edward 


58 


9 Maria L. 


88 


Samuel E. 


58 


9 William R. 


88 


Sidney MOREHOUSE 


94 


Joseph LYNDE 


119 


Alfred G. MORGAN 


47 


Alfred Child LYON 


114 


Elijah 


83 


Ethel Bert Child 


114 


Henry S. 


86 


Maryett F. 


114 


Sarah 


S3 


Gen. Nathaniel 


114 


May J. MORRIS 


95 


William 


114 


Augus MORRISON 


44 


Andrew J. MAIN 


49 


10 Catharine J. 


44 


Katherine L. MALTBY 


79 


10 Emily 


44 


Charlotte S. MANN 


5 


10 Mary 


. 44 


Lizzie 


|>1 


Prof. Samuel F. B. MORSE 


114 


Amos MARRETT 


10 


Agnes MORTON 


85 


John 


]0 


Robert MOSHER 


71 


Mabel MARSH 


53 


Peter MOYER 


94 


Edward C. MARSHALL 


46 


Edy MULCAHIE 


98 


Eliza C. 


47 


10 Mary 


99 


Lydia 


114 


Elizabeth MUNSON 


25 


Capt. Samuel 


114 


Joseph MYGATE 


13 


Josiah MARSHPIELD 


120 


Elmore MYRICK 


113 


Anna MARVIN 


110 


Sarah NASH 


96 


Matthew 


110 


Indian sachem NEALEWORT 10 


Nathan 


110 


Wilmer D. NELSON 


102 


Arthur MASON 


21 


Hannah NEWBURY 


114 


Major John 


14 


Rev. Antipas NEWMAN 10, 


13, 111 


10 Charles R. MASSIE 


95 


Indian chief NINIGRATE 


26 


10 Frederick W. 


95 


9 Amanda NODINE 


78 


John R. 


95 


3 Lemuel 


78 


John C. MATHER 


60 


William 


78 


10 James McCLELLAND 


86 


Mortimer O. H. NORTON 


47 


Rev. James F. 


80 


"Sister" 


17 


10 Mary 


86 


Abigail NOYES 


L4 


10 Nancy 


86 


Dorothy 


34 


Michael McCRUTCHEN 


91 


Rev. James, 18 


27, 32 


Marian M. McFARLAND 


47 


Oliver 


119 


Arthur J. McGRAAV 


97 


Thomas 


22 


Allen McLEAN 


76 


Capt. Thomas 


24 


Mary McMANUS 


91 


Frances OGDEN 


124 


Susan 


91 


Emma OLDENBBRG 


59 


Amanda E. McNELLEY 


102 


Daniel OLIVER 


119 


Mary MEACH 


?5 


Peter 


9, 119 


Mary MEAD 


130 


John OSBORN 


86 


Clara E. MERRILL 


99 


— OWEN 


87 


9 Amanda MESEROLE 


77 


Elsie 


93 


10 Benjamin Richardson 


79 


Esther 


93 


10 Clinton Vanderbilt 


79 


Hannah 


93 


10 Darwin James 


79 


John 


93 


9 Frederick 


77 


Palmer A. PADDOCK 


79 


9 George 


77 


8 Cyrus PAGE 


61 


10 Jeremiah Schenck 


79 


8 Electa Maria 


61 


Gen. Jeremiah Vanderbilt 


79 


8 Erwin 


61 


10 Olive Richardson 


79 


Frank E. 


106 


10 Sophia Louise 


79 


Harlan 


61, 63 


William R. 


77 


9 Harlan K. 


ei 


Edward MESSENGER 


19 


8 Harlan M. 


61 


Col. James METCALP 


114 


. 9 Josie Electa 


61 


John MIDDAGH 


89 


Mary Ann 


98 


John MILES 


25 


Nellie Roselle 


106 


Mary 


114 


Awdrey PALMER 


129 


Richard 


114 


John 


9 


Ann MILLER 


88 


Henry M. 


11, 20 


Asher 


44 


Saxton 


23 


Elnat'han MINOR 


24 


William 


63 


Ephriam 


11 


'Dorcas PAINE 


115 


4 Henrietta 


25 


Elisha 


115 


Joanna 


28 


Hannah 


96 


Joseph 


28 


Robert Treat 


115 


4 Prudence 


25 


Thomas 


115 


3 Rev. Richardson 


25 


Asahel PARKER 


42 


Thomas 


11, 13. 19 


Nicholas 


<< 



140 



Ashbel PARKS 


35 


UKKD— Continued. 






Ebenezer PARSONS 


60 


Horace H. 




94 


Mary PARTKinoE 


119 


11 Lillie C. 




101 


Lieut. Gov. William 


119 


11 Martha E. 




100 


Susan PATL^RSON 


60 


Mary H. 


4 


94 


Benjamin W. PAVJVE3 


88 


Newton 




4 


John Howard 
Polly PEARSALIi 


115 
114 






70 
97 


Amy E. REXFORD 




Samuel 


114 


Cora A. REYNOLDS 




59 


, , Abigial PELHAM 
1 to- Margaret PERKINS 
Charles D. PETTEE 


28 


9 Grace 




86 


"t 


■ 10 Helen Wilkinson 


4, 


86 


James 




5G 


George PETTIUONE 


58 


9 James 




86 


9 George R. 


58 


9 John Richardson 




86 


Hannah PETTINGILL 


115 


Mercy E. 




110 


Nellie PHII.RRICK 


109 


Robert 




9 


King PHILLIP 26, 


118 


9 Sarah E. 




86 


Hannah PHILIPS 


23 


Betsy RICE 




98 


Angeline PLACE 


80 


Dr. 




50 


Martha PLOSS 


97 


Elizabeth 




75 


George PLUMB 


23 


S Aaron C. RICHARDSON 




42 - 


Sarah PICKERING 


9 


5 Abial (Ladd) 




65 


Daniel PIERCE 


22 


Abigail 




10 


Rev. James PIERPONT 


124 


5 Abigail 


29 


59 


John 


16 


6 Abigail (Kingsbury) 




54 


Sarah 


124 


7 Achsah 




68 


Jerusha PITKIN 


125 


9 Addie 




71 


Frank POLLY 


SO 


9 Adelaide (Hawley) 




99 


George POUIEROY 


61 


9 Adeline 




58 


8 Alva PORTER 


60 


9 Adella 




107 


6 Amaziah 


64 


8 Agnes 




90 


Ebenezer 


60 


9 Ahira S. 




70 


Jerusha 


50 


8 Ahira Steele 




69 


Jonathan 


60 


9 Albert 




70 


6 Jonathan 


64 


li Alexander 




55 


Col. Joseph W. 57 


, 60 


10 Alfred H. 




79 


6 Irene 


64 


11 Alice L. 




98 


6 Lois (Kingsbury) 


60 


9 Alonzo 




71 


6 Mercy 


64 


8 Amanda 


70, 


78 


Pamelia 


55 


9 Amanda (Walker) 




107 


6 Percis 


64 


8 Amanda M., (Sowter) 




94 


6 Rachel 


64 


1 Amos 4, 7-22, 27, 29, 


37, 


69 


8 Rosanna 


60 


2 Amos 




22 


8 Sophronia 


60 


3 Amos 


28 


, 29 


Richard POST 


10 


4 Amos 29, 33, 34, 39-41, 


66, 


127 


Mayor Samuel S. POWELIi 


87 


5 Amos 




35 


Daniel PRATT 


96 


5 Capt. Amos 


45-47 


Nancy 94 


, 96 


6 Amos 


37, 


43 


Stephen 


96 


7 Amos ^ 37, 


47, 


48 


Charles PRENTICE 


70 


8 Amos 


42, 


49 


Dr. H. M. PRESTON 


51 


10 Amy Bell 




105 


Gertrude PRICE 


98 


6 Andrew 




■12 


Mary Farrar 


62 


7 Andrew 




42 


Eliphaz Hibbard PRIDE 


116 


9 Andrew Bowne 




79 


John 


116 


8 Andrew E. 




42 


Louisa 


116 


8 Andrew Edward 




58 


Nellie M. PRYOR 


95 


10 Andrew H. 




79 


Thomas PURCHASE 


7 


9 Angeline 




SO 


Elizabeth Neal PURDIE 


37 


5 Ann (Brigham) 




55 


Anna PUTNAM 


110 


7 Ann 




38 


Col. 


57 


9 Ann Sophia (Meserole) 




79 


Isaac 


110 


3 Anna 




23 


Gen. Israel 


110 


5 Anna 




34 


Joanna Q,UARLES 


11 


6 Anna (Grant) 




46 


James M. nUIGLEY 


lOS 


7 Anna 


35, 


87 


QUIMHY 


80 


6 Anne (Thompson) 
8 Anne 




7^ 


n Daisy D. RAYMOND 


10] 




to 

58 


10 Ella Isadora 


100 


5 Annis 




29 


George A. 


100 


10 Arthur Leland 




98 


10 Harold A. 


101 


7 Aseneth (Moyer) 




94 


10 Ira M. 


101 


8 Aurelia 




90 


11 Minnie N. 


101 


8 Barnett 




42 


10 Timothy C. 


101 


9 Belle Louisa 




72 


Timothy M. 


101 


7 Benjamin 




90 


11 William A. 


101 


10 Benjamin K. 




79 


11 Charles G. A. REED 


101 


8 Benjamin Samuel Knapp 




78-" 


George H. 


100 


10 Bertha Castila 




98 



141 



lOH A RDSON— Continued. 
Betsy 
Betty 

Blanche E. 
Burt Harold 
Burt Humphrey 
Calvin C. 
Carlos E. 
Carolina 
Caroline 

Caroline Aseneth (Harmer) 
Caroline M. 
Carolyn Elizabeth 
Carrie M. 
Catharine 
Catharine 

Catharine Knapp (Nodine) 
Catharine R. 
Dr. Clement L. 
Charles 
Charles 
Charles Bryon 
Charles LeRoy 
Charles Wesley 
Charlotte 

Charlotte Bowne (Riggs) 
Charlotte Elizabeth 
Chester 
Chloe 
Clara 
Clara L. 

Clara Lenora (Wilson) 
Clarence 
Clarence M. 
Clarissa 

Clark Pratt 98, 

Clark T. (Mulcahie) 
Clementine 
Cornelia 

Cornelia Cox (Jennings) 
Cynthia Ann 
Cyrus 
Cyrus 
Dan 
Dan 
8 Dan Erskine 

5 Daniel 

6 Daniel 

7 Daniel 

4 David 

5 David 

8 David 

8 David Daniel 

10 DeLancey 

9 DeWitt 

8 Dewitt C. 

5 Dorothy 

9 Duane 

8 Duane M. 

11 Earl James 

9 Edgar M. 

7 Edmund 

10 Edna L. 

11 Edna M. 

8 Edward 

7 Edwin 

8 Edwin 

9 Edwin 
9 Egbert 
9 Eleanor 

7 Eleazer 

8 Eli 

8 Eli Baker 

8 Eliza Benton 

9 Eliza 

3 Elizabeth 

6 Elizabeth 



R 

8 
5 

11 

11 

10 

9 

9 



9 
10 

11 
2 

3 

8 

10 

-8 

8 

9 

10 

9 

9 

8 

9 

8 

8 

9 

10 

9 

9 

8 

10 

•8 

9 

8 

7 

8 

9 

6 





RICHARDSON-Continued. 




43 


7 Elizabeth 37, 74, 


86, 87, 91 


29 


8 Elizabeth 


53, 72, 75 


98 


9 Ella 


76 


98 


9 Ellen Lucretia 


42 


98 


9 Elwyn Heath 


72 


71 


7 Emily 


38 


70 


8 Emily 


43 


75 


10 Emily E. 


44 


42, 45 


9 Emily Eliza 


44 


95 


8 Emily L. 


51 


77 


9 Emma 


71 


76 


9 Emma C. 


80 


97 


9 Emma Louise 


76 


22 


9 Emmit Barnes 


104 


22, 23 


6 EpJjriam 


50, 52 


78 


8 Ephtfiam B. 


95 


44 


10 Essie Roselle 


105 


37 


6 Esther 


43 


51, 71 


10 Ethel 


80 


70. 91 


9 Eugene 


71 


97 


10 Eugene Clifton 


76 


105 


5 Eunice (Jewett) 


65 


107 


9 Eva Bell (Page) 


105, 106 


74 


6 Ezekiel 


50, 51 


80 


10 Fenton Winthrop 


115 


82, 88 


9 Flora 


70, 71 


50 


9 Florence 


71 


50, 51 


9 Florence Delphine 


44 


38 


11 Floyd Melvin 


98 


39 


9 Francis A. 


69 


106 


9 Prances Annett 


75 


107 


9 Frank 


70, 107 


71 


10 Frank DeLos 


97 


76 


9 Frank E. 


77 


105, 108 


11 Fred 


97 


99 


9 Fred C. 


72 


78 


10 Fred Wilson 


76 


80 


7 Dr. Frederick 


69 


82 


9 Frederick 


81 


53 


8 Frederick A. 


70 


42 


11 Frederick F. 


79 


70 


9 Galitzin Truair 


44 


89, 92 


6 George 


34, 35 


69 


7 George 


35 


69 


9 George B. 


76 


29 


10 George J. 


105 


38, 55 


9 George M. 


77 


38 


9 George Marvin 


92 


28, 29 


7 George Washington 


58 


29, 50 


7 Gideon 


74 


90 


9 Gideon F. 


75 


106, 107 


10 Gifford D. 


77 


115 


8 Grace 


77 


71 


9 Grace 


82 


71 


10 Grace Florence 


115 


35 


3 Hannah 


23 


71 


7 Hannah 


35, 48 


71 


8 Hannah W. 


44 


98 


10 Harold Hanford 


115 


77 


7 Harriet 


68 


37 


8 Harriet 


71 


77 


9 Harriet Ann 


80 


97 


8 Harriet E. (Bates) 


103, 107 


49 


9 Harriet E. 


75 


38 


9 Harriet H. 


44 


58 


8 Hattie Strong 


42 


70 


7 Haynes 


37 


71 


7 Helen 


37 


82 


8 Henry 


53 


42 


9 Henry 


81 


B8, 71 


8 Henry Clay 


81 


71 


9 Herbert 


71 


70 


6 Hettie 


45 


70 


6 Hezekiah 


47, 73 


9'> 


8 Hezekiah 


49 


45 


7 Hiram 


58, 89, 91 



I 



142 



KK'HAKDSON— Continued. 






RIfHA KDSON— Continued. 




S Hiram 




90 


5 Lemuel 30, 45, 


66, 68, 


73, 131 


9 Homer 




70 


6 Lemuel 




38, es 


7 Hulda 




68 


7 Lemuel 38, 


39, 74, 


78. 88 


S Huldah Ann (Davis) 




80 


9 Lemuel 




75 


7 Huldah D. (Garrison) 


74 


88 


8 Lemuel S. 




80 


8 Huldah G. 




68 


9 Lemuel S. 




80 


B Humphrey 




56 


10 Lena Luella 




116 


6 Humphrey 56, 


57, 92 


93 


10 Leo Duane 




76 


7 Humphrey 42, 


58, 94 


96 


11 LeRoy Palmer 




98 


8 Humphrey 




97 


7 Leydon 




53 


9 Humphrey Bryon 




98 


8 Lillcone 




51 


8 Humphrey Davenport 




58 


10 Lillian 




77 


9 Humphrey Davenport 




58 


11 Lina Alice 




97 


9 Humphrey Edward Eugene 




5S 


Lois 




68 


10 Ina May 




106 


5 Lois (Porter) 




60 


7 Ira 




70 


6 Lois 




41, 45 


8 Ira 




70 


8 Lois Ann 




42 


9 Ira 


71. 


105 


9 Loren 




70 


9 Ira E. 




71 


9 Lome 




71 


8 Rev. Ira Humphrey 




103 


10 Louis 




Ki5 


6 Irene 




65 


9 Louis Ferdinand 




69 


10 Jay Hugh 




98 


7 Lothrop 




71 


5 Col. James 


35-37 


8 Lovila 




71 


6 James 




65 


9 Lovila 




71 


9 James I. 




71 


8 Lovina 




69 


8 James Monroe 




81 


9 Lovina 




70 


7 Dr. James Stephen 




37 


Lovina B. 




70 


9 James W. White 




75 


9 Lucia 




76 


8 James White 




49 


9 Lucia Lorania 




75 


6 Jane (Wright) 




53 


8 Lucinda C. 




71 


8 Jane 


51, 


66 


9 Lucius 




71 


8 Jane Isabella (Reynolds) 




86 


6 Lucretia 




54 


9 Jessie 




71 


6 Lucy 




43 


3 Jemima 


28, 


31 


8 Lucy Strong 




49 


6 Jennet Jewett 




54 


9 Lydia 




82 


Jerusha 


50, 


51 


6 Mabel 


55, 


67, 72 


7 Jerusha (Loomis) 


50, 


51 


7 Marcia (Jones) 




59 


7 Jerusha Wolcott 




38 


7 Margaret (Dodge) 




59 


2 Rev. John 15, 


18, 21-23 


8 Margaret Helen 




42, 58 


S John 




22 


7 Marilla 




38 


5 John 




35 


8 Marilla 




38 


6 John 




43 


8 Marion (Moore) 




58 


7 John 




37 


6 Martin 




50, 52 


9 John 




70 


8 Martin P. 




45 


8 Col. John A. 


36, 


37 


6 Marvel 




89-91 


7 John Clauson 


42, 


58 


7 Marvel (or Marvin) 




91 


8 John Henry 




75 


6 Marvelous 74 


, 82, 87-89, 92 


8 John Lyman 




44 


7 Marvelous 




74, 82 


9 John Lyman 


4, 


44 


7 Rev. Marvin 




82, 83 


10 John Lvman 




44 


8 Marvin 




88 


8 John W. 




70 


8 Marvin D. 




76 


8 John Williams Fletcher 




91 


Mary 


11, 18, 


19, 22 


3 Jonathan 27, 28, 31-33,37 124 


2 Mary 




20 


4 Jonathan 28, 


32-35, 


40 


3 Mary 


22, 23, 


28, 29 


5 Jonathan 




50 


4 Mary 




30 


7 Jonathan 




35 


7 Mary (Sale) 




87, 91 


7 Jonathan Dwight 




53 


6 Mary (Fox) 




50, 52 


9 Joseph Post 




81 


8 Mary 


38, 


39, 58 


9 Joseph Taylor 




91 


9 Mary 




71, 99 


8 Joseph Warren 




49 


7 Mary Ann 




37 


9 Josephine Amelia (Hill) 


57 


58 


8 Mary Ann 




51 


8 Judson Wade 




72 


9 Mary Ann 




91 


7 Julia Ann 




53 


8 Mary Furman (Luther) 




81 


9 Julia Mabel 




42 


8 Mary Jane 




72 


8 Julian 




38 


9 Marv Lyman (Hand) 




44 


5 Justus 




64 


8 Mary S. (Bradley) 




95 


7 Katherine Pheobe 




31 


9 Maryetta 




76 


7 Lathrop 




f;9 


6 Mason 




50, 52 


7 Laura 


70, 95 


99 


Mehitable 




31 


8 Laura A. 




72 


4 Mehitable 




30 


9 Laura Ann 




44 


6 Mercy (or Mary) 




67 


9 Laura Jane 




76 


7 Mercy 




42 


11 Lavern 




97 


9 Meridan L. 




71 


7 Lavlnia (Delliber) 




52 


8 Milo Amos 


102-104, 110 


10 Lee 




98 


6 Minor 




52 


3 Lemuel 


30 


30 


9 Moses 




42 



143 



KIC'HARDSON-Continued. 1 


RICHARDSON— Continued. 




7 Nancy (Coleman) 


47, 48 


3 Samuel 


30 


8 Nancy M. (Williams) 


99, 100 


4 Samuel 


30 


8 Nancy M. (Vincent) 


84 


5 Samuel 


36 


5 Capt. Nathan 


41, 127 


6 Samuel 


30, 38, 67 


6 Nathan 


43 


7 Samuel 


37 


8 Nathan R. 


43 


8 Samuel 


70 


3 Nathaniel 


27, 31 


8 Samuel M. 


86 


5 Nathaniel 


36 


6 Rev. Samuel N. 


37 


6 Nathaniel 


67 


7 Samuel W. 


31 


9 Nellie (Copple) 


107 


2 Sarah 


9, 23 


9 Nellie Eunice 


105 


3 Sarah 


22, 23 


8 Nellie G. 


39 


4 Sarah 


30 


9 Nettie Bell (Schenck) 


104 


6 Sarah 


35, 45 


10 Nina May 


115 


7 Sarah 


38 


7 Olive 


48 


9 Sarah 


98 


8 Olive White 


49 


8 Sarah Ann (Lewis) 


TJf 


9 Olive White 


70 


9 Seldon 


70 


8 Opheha 


42 


9 Seth Whiteley 


104 


8 Oramel 


70 


6 Silas 


38 


7 Orrin 


94 


9 Simeon 


91 


8 Orrin 


97, 105, 108 


8 Simeon Hall 


91 


9 Orrin Judson 


106 


8 Simeon R. 


45 


9 Orville H. 


71 


7 Simon 


74, 76, 88 


9 Palmer B. 


97 


7 Sophia 


37 


7 Pauline 


67, 68 


8 Sophia 


42, 69 


7 Persis 


70 


8 Sophia Nancy (Heath) 


109 


9 Persis 


70 


5 Stanton 


30 


8 Persis R. 


72 


2 Stephen 14, 15, 20, 22, 


26-28, 120 


Phebe 45, 


46, 87, 89, 90 


3 Stephen 


28, 29, 34 


7 Phebe 


43, 48 


4 Stephen 


28, 31 


9 Phebe 


91 


5 Stephen 


29, 37, 53 


8 Phebe Ann 


90 


6 Stephen 


73, 89 


8 Phebe Jane 


91 


7 Stephen 


35 


6 Phillip 


55 


8 Stephen 


90 


6 Polly 


55 


8 Stephen F. 


74, 77 


2 Prudence 


23, 24 


9 Stephen H. 


99 


3 Prudence 


23 


9 Sumner D. 


77 


b Prudence 


36, 39 


7 Susan (Lyman) 


48 


7 Purdie 


37 


7 Thankful 


35 


3 Rachel 


28. 30 


8 Thomas Gideon 


75 


5 Rachel 


29, 39. 50 


7 Dr. Uriel 


50, 51 


8 Rachel C. 


71 


7 Vina 


70 


8 Rachel Hoffman 


82 


8 Vina 


71 


8 Rachel Rebecca 


72 


10 Ward Adams 


115 


6 Ralph 


38 


10 Warren S. 


80 


7 Ralph 


72 


6 Wealthy 


52 


8 Ralph 


72 


7 Wealthy (Palmer) 


53 


7 Ralzamon 


38 


9 Webb 


58 


8 Rebecca (Morgan) 


86 


6 Welles 


45 


6 Reuben Stiles 


49 


8 TVellington B. 


88 


7 Rhoda 


43 


6 William 


50 


6 Richard 


73 


7 William 


38 


8 Richard 


75 
75 


8 William Butler 
7 William Hart 


31 
53 


9'Rn"haiu R. i.oiiin k 


9 Robert M. 


76 


7 William Palmer 


43 


7 Roderick 


68 


8 Dr. William M. 


36, 37 


8 Roderick 


4, 69, 72 


8 William Palmer 


45 


9 Roderick Davis 


69 


9 "W^illiam Philip 


44 


9 Roderick Julius 


09 


9 William S. 


77 


9 Rolla 


70 


8 William Sharp 


77. 88 


7 Rollin 


38 


5 Zebulon 


56 


6 Rosamond (Brewster) 


42 


6 Zebulon 


49 


7 Rosamond 


42 


6 Major Zebulon 


68 


9 Resell L. 


5, 112,113 


7 Zereniah 


42 


9 Rosette 


71 


10 Albert Richardson, RIGGS 80 


7 Roswell 4, 


66-68,71-73, 93 


Rev. Alexander Brown 


80 


6 Russell 


65 


10 Ella May 


80 


6 Ruth (Swetland) 


49 


10 Elsie Agnew 


80 


7 Ruth 


4» 


8 Amos. RIPLEY 


48 


9 Ruth (Sweigle) 


104 


Elijah 


48 


8 Ruth Stiles 


49 


8 Elijah 


48 


6 Sallv 


39 


8 Emily 


48 


7 Sally 


35 


8 Erastus 


48 


5 Salmon 


36 


8 Frederick 


48 


5 Salmon Treat 


34, 35 


8 Joseph 


48 


2 Samuel 


20, 23 


8 Norman 


48 



144 



RlPMi:% —Continued. 






Mary SCHEMERHORN 


55 


S Olive 




48 


Wayne SCHENCK 


104 


8 Polly 




48 


Pamelia SCOTT 


71 


8 Sally 




48 


Sarah M. 


64 


R. Bertranrl ROANTREE 




95 


Hulda Fowler SE.-VGRAVE 


S4 


Freda ROIIB 




44 


9 George SELLECK 


90 


Benjamin ROBERTS 




39 


Judge Samuel SEAVELL 


21 


10 Frank H. 




52 


Rhoda SHARMAN 


95 


Dr. Franklin P. 




52 


Edward J. SHAAV 


77 


10 Hazel L. 




52 


11 Fannie S. 


77 


Amelia ROBERTSON 




56 


Jane 


106 


Ida Mav (Warner) 




64 


Anna SHARP 


7C 


7 Neal ROBINSON 




64 


Sarah 


76 


Samuel 




70 


Nancy SHELDON 


116 


Capt. Samuel 




64 


Seth 


116 


7 Sarah Anne 




64 


Frank J. SHELLER 


108 


Jabez ROCKWELL 




64 


Elijah SHERWIN 


59 


Elizabeth ROGERS 




129 


Sarah E. SHIPMAN 


63 


Rev. John 




116 


Charity SKINNER — 


71 


Mary 




120 


Noah 


66 


Lucretia ROOT 


42, 58 


Crump, Negro (SLAVE) 


28, 34 


t» rkrkmc 




87 


Deborah, Indian 


28, 34 


' iH^V^ K S 


8 Elizabeth H. ROSE 




49 


Peter, Negro 


28, 29 


8 Fanny Mary 




49 


Jonathan SMELLOWS 


16 


Capt. Joseph 




49 


Rfv. Alexander B. SMITH 


37 


Mary 




130 


Alice 


11, 12 


Janet ' ROSS 




95 


Ann 


12 


John ROSSITER 




119 


Charles 


91 


Simeon ROWLING 




77 


E. B. 


73 


Samuel RUDD 




55 


Elizabeth 


11 


Sarah RUGGLES 




114 


8 Elizabeth N. R. (Mrs. Parker) 


37 


8 Amelia RUSS 




56 


Emma T. 


S5 


Horace 




56 


Henry 


87 


8 Horace D. 




56 


Francis 


9, 11 


8 Isabel 




56 


James 


11, 12 


8 Lewis 




:-,6 


John 


11, 12 


8 Louisa 




56 


Mary 


]1 


8 Lucia E. 




56 


Mary Ann 


37 


"Albert D. RUST 




129 


8 Mary Helen Purdie (Mrs. Robi 


nson 


Anna 


45 


, C6 


4, 


36, 37 


Anne 




131 


Ravmond R. 


95 


Caroline 




52 


Reuben H. 


5 


Chloe 




131 


Richard 


11-13 


, Daniel 




130 


Quarles 


11 


1 Elizabeth 




131 


Mary SNOW 


115 


Experience 




130 


Nicholas 


115 


Freelove 




131 


Emma SOULES 


70 


Hannah 




129 


9 Florence B. SOWTER 


94 


Henry 




129 


9 Frank L. 


94 


Israel 


129, 


130 


Lewis 


94 


John 


129, 


130 


9 Sarah A. 


94 


, Jonathan 


129, 


130 


Erastus N. SPALDING 


70 


Lydia 




131 


Dr. Volney 


47 


Nathaniel 


129, 


130 


Capt. A. D. SPARKMAN 


106 


Capt. Nathaniel 




130 


11 John Page 


lOG 


Noah 




130 


11 Marriene Roselle 


106 


I Rebecca 




130 


10 Marion Faith SPENCE 


95 


Samuel 


129, 


130 


Ronald A. 


95 


,Capt. Samuel 66, 
Sarah 


130, 


131 


Agnes (Edwards) SPENCER 


121 


130, 


131 


Clair 


94 


9 Annie E. SALE 




87 


Denman 


54 


9 Charlotte D. 




87 


Elizabeth 


. 121 


9 Emily G. 




87 


9 Harriet 


54 


9 John W. 




87 


10 Nellie 


94 


9 lona 




87 


Samuel 


121 


Samuel W. 


87 


, 91 


Sarah 


121 


Gov. Gurdon SALTONSTALL 


116 


William 


121 


Charles F. SANFORD 




81 


William H. SPERRY 


113 


10 David C. 




81 


8 Eliot G. SPOFFORD 


51 


Gov. John 




15 


8 Harriet M. 


50, 51 


10 John F. 




81 


Jesse 


51 


8 Edwin SARGENT 




72 


8 Manly W. 


51 


8 Irvins 




72 


8 Marilla 


51 


8 Roderick 




72 


7 Maryette 


51 


Thomas 




72 


8 Monroe D. 


51 


Rev. Fred SAUNDERS 




39 


8 Uriel 


51 


James SAVAGE 7, 18 


. 28, 


117 


Capt. Richard SPRAGUE 


23 



145 



6 Adam STANTON 35 

6 Amos 35 

6 Anna 35 

6 Daniel 35 

Desire 24 

6 Dorothy 35 

6 George 35 

Dr. George Denison 5, 24 

John 35, 39 

6 Mary 35 

6 Prudence 35 

6 Rachel 35 

6 Rebecca 35\ 

Sarah 30 

Thomas 24 

John STARIvAVEATHER 126 

Lovina STEELE 69 

Jehosaphat STARR 21 

Ruth STILES 45, 46 

Lucy STILLMAN 53 

Anthony STODDARD 119 

Esther • 12« 

Rev. Solomon 124 

James STOKES 8 

Rev. Samuel STONE 14, 16, 19 

Capt. Thomas STOUGHTON 124 



Dorothy STOW 
Rev. Samuel 
Isabella STRATTON 
Dr. Alonzo STREETER 
8 Cordelia STRINGHAM 

8 Dean Swift 

9 Ella 

8 Emeline 
8 George 

John D. 
8 Mary 

Elder John STRONG 

Keziah 

Laura D. 

Sarah (Richardson) 

Capt. Walter 

Lydia SWEAT 

Curtis C. SWEIGLE 
10 Irene 

8 Anne SWETLAND 
8 Harriet E. 
8 Henry Kirk Wight 

Levi 

7 Levi 

8 Levi P. 
8 Mary A. 

7 Mille 

8 Olive White 
8 Oliver W. 

7 Polly 
7 Rosea 
7 Ruth 

James H. TAFT 

Mary TALCOTT 

Harriet E. TAYLOR 

Lavinia 

Sarah 

Mary L. E. TEAL 

Nina TENEYCK 

Abigail THAYER 

Elizabeth THOMPSON 

Emory O. 
7 Nathan 

Nathaniel 

Olive 

William 

Elizabeth P. THORNTON 

J. Wingate 

Martha M. TIFFANY 

Amos TINKER 

John 



119 

119 
91 
60 
92 
92 
92 
91 
91 
91 
91 
48, 116 

130 

115, 116 

48 

116 
71 

104 

104 

49 

49, CI 

49, 61 

49, 61 

40, 49 

49, 61 

49, 61 

49 

49 

61 

49 

49 

49 

87 

122 
69 
52 
38 

119 

109 
50 
75 
99 
73 
73 
47, 73 
23 
47 

118 

39 

11 

8, 11-13 



34, 



TINKER— Continued. 

Mary 

■ TINKHAM 

Albert L. TOWNE 
10 Alice 
10 Frank L. 
10 Jane E. 
10 John E. 
10 Julia E. 
10 Mary E. 

10 Nettie M. 
i Addison L. TRACY 

Henry 
8 Lois Abby 
Simon 

8 Simon K. 
Eliphalet TRASK 
Isaac 
Josiah 
Osmond 
Susanna 
Amos TREAT 
Anna 
Elizabeth 
James 
Gov. Robert 
Rev. Salmon 
Sarah 
William TRIMMING 
Submit TROOP 
Mary TROVVHRIDGE 
Prof. John G. K. TRUAIR 

TRUMBULL 

Habakuk TURNER 
Sarah E. 

Arad TUTTLE 

Elizabeth . 32, 122, 

William 

Indian Chief UNCAS 117, 

Capt. John UNDERHILL 

Daniel USHER 

Catherine J. VALLEAU 

Lydia A. P. VAN AKIN 

Leonard VAN ALSTINE 

Margaret 

Elizabeth N. VAN DYKE 

Nancy Ann VAN KIRK 

Charles W. VAN NOTE 

Levi VAN VALKENBURGH 

11 Nellie M. 
11 Ralph A. 

Mary Ann VAN VOORHIS 

George VAUGHAN 
■10 Edith VINCENT 
10 Helen Seagrave 

9 John Wilkinson 
10 Katherine Storm 

Rev. Leonard M. 
10 Leonard R 
9 Mary 
10 Mary 
10 Marvin R. 
9 Rev. Marvin Richardson 

Rev. John Adams VINTON 

Rebecca WADE 

Gideon WAKEMAN 

Rachel 

Rev. Samuel 

John WALDO 

Eliza WALDRON 
10 Barton E. WALKER 
10 Charles A. 
10 Edna May 
10 Fred E. 

Jefferson A. 

Ralph 

Capt. Andrew AV'ARD 



11 

70 

102 

102 

102 

102 

102 

102 

102 

102 

62 

51 

62 

62 

S2 

110 

110 

110 

110 

110 

35 

34 

35 

35 

100 

127 

37 

27 

64 

120 

44 

35 

33 

61 

53 

123 

122 

118 

114 

66 

30 

62 

96 

94 

62 

74 

101 

98 

98 

98 

91 

119 

&5 

S5 

85 

85 

84 

85 

S6 

S5 

85 

84 

4 

93 

114 

114 

114 

115 

69 

107 

107 

107 

107 

107 

69 

122 



146 



Mary AVARDELL 


129 


^VI 1. LI AltIS— Continued. 




Rev. John WARHAM 


IIG 


Matthew 


100 


John WARNER 


30 


10 Milo Beyer 


102 


John WATSON 


39 


10 Milo D. 


102 


Martha WAV 


53 


10 Minnie E. 


102 


Margaret WEBB 


57 


10 Nancy May 


101 


Mary 


58 


10 Rena 


102 


Kdwanl WELLES 


44 


9 Reuben 


100, 101 


WilHam \\ELLMAN 


121 


Rev. Roger 


14 


Francis WELLS 


117 


Sarah 


114 


Hugh 


117 


Sherman 


100 


Mary 22, 26, 27, 


33, 117 


Christian AVIL,L.IA»ISON 


125 


Thomas 


14, 29 


Isaac WILLY 


10 


Gov Thomas 


117 


Saul 


121 


Emeline WELSH 


81 


Abigail WILSON 


131 


Joseph G. WEST 


86 


Betsy Ann 


105 


Sarah E. 


62 


Dorothy 


131 


David V. W ESTUROOK 


82 


10 Hattie Roselle 


106 


Richard \\HARTOIV 


8 


Jacob 


131 


Grace D. WHEELER 


4 


John 


131 


Judge Richard A. 4, 20, 24 


, 34, 36 


10 Leota Eva 


106 


Anna AVHITE 


136 


Sarah 


131 


Col. James 


48 


William 


131 


Elder John 


117 


William H. 


106 


Mary 


117 


10 William Herbert 


106 


8 Olive Richardson 


48 


Zebulon 


131 


Richard Grant 


6 


Hilpah WINCHELL 


54 


Samuel 


64 


Cynthia WING 


60 


Rev. George WHITEFIELD 


51 


Adam WINTHROP 


7 


Sarah white:hill 


75 


Dean 


8, 11, 18 


Electa WHITELEY 


104 


Elizabeth 


13, 19 


Eli WHITNEY 


124 


Gov. Fitz John 7, 16, 


17, 19, 27 


Col. John 


35 


Gov. John 7-10, 13, 16- 


•19, 26, 27 


Pauline (or Polly) 


30 


Lucy 7 


8, 17, 19 


Susan (Dimock) 


4 


Margaret 


19 


9 Arthur M. WIGHT 


62 


Speaker Robert C. 


4, 19 


9 Clara E. 


62 


Robert C. (Jr.) 


4, 18 


Daniel 


60, 62 


Samuel 


8 


9 Daniel P. 


62 


Col. Stephen 


7-9 


9 Edwin M. 


60 


Capt. Wait 


8, 16 


8 Joseph K. 


62 


Abigail WISE 


93 


Lucippa 


114 


11 Ray Beyer WISER 


101 


Capt. Nathan 


114 


Vern L. 


101 


8 William Ward 


62 


11 Vern LeRoy 


101 


9 William Ward 


62 


Mary W ITHERELL 


116 


Elmira WILDER 


45 


Rev. William 


116 


Hannah WII>|I\ERSO]V 


35 


May WOLfOTT 


79 


Jane H. WILKINSON 


86 


Gen. James WOLFE 


36 


Daniel WILLARD 


110 


8 Ann Eliza WOOD 


87 


Isaac 


110 


8 Charlotte 


87 


Julius 


110 


8 Ebenezer 


87 


Laura Louisa 


no 


Eunice 


29 


Richard 


110 


9 Henry 


87 


Rev. Samuel 


22 


John 


86 


Major Simon 


110 


Jonathan 


91 


10 Charles F. WILLIAMS 


103 


Lucia 


70 


10 Charles J, 


101 


Emma WOODS 


99 


Charles P. 


20 


Wells WOODBRIDGE 


55 


10 Clara Eldora 


101 


6 Prudence WOODBURN 


35, 39 


9 Cynthia 


100 


Samuel 


39 


9 David 


100, 101 


Alice WOODWARD 


126 


10 Edith Ann 


101 


Amos 


127 


10 Edna Ethel 


103 


Daniel 


127 


9 Ellen D 


101 


Hannah 


127 


10 Ernest Clifford 


102 


Thankful WORDEN 


35 


10 Euseba 


103 


Rev. W RIGHT 


89 


9 Frank 


103 


Elijah 


53 


9 Gilbert A. 


102 


7 Emily 


54 


10 Gilbert L. 


103 


7 Harvey 


54 


10 Ida I'^mma 


101 


7 James 


54 


Ira 


99, 100 


Jesse 


53 


10 Ira Abraham 


101 


7 John 


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10 James Ira 


103 


Rev. Merle St. C. 


4i^ 


Jonas 


114 


Nancy 


105 


9 Lemuel 


102 


Deacon Samuel 


53 


10 Louisa M. 


103 


Andrew VARINGTON 


126 


9 Mary K. 


102 


Anthony 


126 



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126 


Jonathan 








127 


Abiah YARRINGTON 




126 


Joseph 








127 


Abigail 






127 


Keziah 








127 


Amaziah 






127 


Laura 








127 


Amos 






127 


Mary 








127 


Rev. Benjamin M. 


126, 


127 


Peter 






126, 


127 


Deborah 






127 


Phebe 








127 


Desire 






127 


Rachel 






40, 41, 


127 


Ebenezer 






128 


Rufus 








127 


Elijah 






127 


Simon 








127 


Elizabeth 






127 


William 






126, 


127 


Ezekiel 




126, 


127 


Zipporah 








127 


Hannah 






127 


Ella May 


YATES 




76 


Jerusha 






127 


Anthony, 


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126 



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